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In robot planning, tasks can often be achieved through multiple options, each consisting of several actions. This work specifically addresses deadline constraints in task and motion planning, aiming to find a plan that can be executed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yoonchang Sung , Shahaf S. Shperberg , Qi Wang , Peter Stone

This paper presents a non-iterative approach for finding the assignment of heterogeneous robots to efficiently execute online Pickup and Just-In-Time Delivery (PJITD) tasks with optimal resource utilization. The PJITD assignments problem is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Shridhar Velhal , Srikrishna B R , Mukunda Bharatheesha , Suresh Sundaram

Task offloading is of paramount importance to efficiently orchestrate vehicular wireless networks, necessitating the availability of information regarding the current network status and computational resources. However, due to the mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ting Zhang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yan Zhang , Chau Yuen

The worldwide growth of e-commerce has created new challenges for logistics companies, one of which is being able to deliver products quickly and at low cost, which reflects directly in the way of sorting packages, needing to eliminate…

We study a pickup-and-delivery problem that arises when customers randomly submit requests over the course of a day from a choice of vendors on a collaborative e-commerce portal. Based on the attributes of a customer request, a dispatcher…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Sara Stoia , Demetrio Laganà , Jeffrey W. Ohlmann

Multipath TCP (MPTCP) is a transport layer protocol that allows network devices to transfer data over multiple concurrent paths, and hence, utilizes the network resources more effectively than does the traditional single-path TCP. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Tuan-Anh Le , Loc X. Bui

We tackle the Online 3D Bin Packing Problem, a challenging yet practically useful variant of the classical Bin Packing Problem. In this problem, the items are delivered to the agent without informing the full sequence information. Agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hang Zhao , Chenyang Zhu , Xin Xu , Hui Huang , Kai Xu

Real-time planning for a combined problem of target assignment and path planning for multiple agents, also known as the unlabeled version of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), is crucial for high-level coordination in multi-agent systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Keisuke Okumura , Xavier Défago

In order to ensure efficient flow of goods in an automated warehouse and to guarantee its continuous distribution to/from picking stations in an effective way, decisions about which goods will be delivered to which particular picking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jakub Hvězda , Tomáš Rybecký , Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving agents to the goal vertex without collision. In the online MAPF problem, new agents may be added to the environment at any time, and the current agents have no information about…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Mingkai Tang , Boyi Liu , Yuanhang Li , Hongji Liu , Ming Liu , Lujia Wang

This paper examines the generalisation of the Pickup and Delivery Problem that allows mid-route load exchanges among vehicles and obeys strict time-windows at all locations. We propose a novel Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (LBBD) that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Ioannis Avgerinos , Ioannis Mourtos , Nikolaos Tsompanidis , Georgios Zois

Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) is a problem that arises in many application domains including package delivery, warehouse robotics, and healthcare. In this work, we consider the problem of MRTA for a dynamic stream of tasks with task…

Document processing automation remains a critical challenge in enterprise environments, where traditional manual approaches are labor-intensive and error-prone. We present MADP, a multi-agent architecture that addresses the challenge of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Diego Gosmar , Giovanni Zenezini

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), which focuses on finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, is crucial in autonomous warehouse operations. Lifelong MAPF (L-MAPF), where agents are continuously reassigned new targets upon completing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yimin Tang , Zhenghong Yu , Yi Zheng , T. K. Satish Kumar , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

This paper presents a multiagent approach as a paradigm for scheduling parallel jobs in a parallel system. Scheduling parallel jobs is performed as a means to balance the load of a system in order to improve the performance of a parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Jaderick P. Pabico

Recently, a higher competition in logistics business introduces new challenges to the vehicle routing problem (VRP). Re-route planning, also known as dynamic VRP, is one of the important challenges. The re-route planning has to be performed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Suttinee Sawadsitang , Dusit Niyato , Kongrath Suankaewmanee , Puay Siew Tan

The Dynamic Task Assignment Problem (DTAP) concerns matching resources to tasks in real time while minimizing some objectives, like resource costs or task cycle time. In this work, we consider a DTAP variant where every task is a case…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Riccardo Lo Bianco , Willem van Jaarsveld , Jeroen Middelhuis , Luca Begnardi , Remco Dijkman

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem entails finding collision-free paths for a set of agents, guiding them from their start to goal locations. However, MAPF does not account for several practical task-related constraints. For…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yu Quan Chong , Jiaoyang Li , Katia Sycara

Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning collision-free movements of agents so that they get from where they are to where they need to be. Commonly, agents are located on a graph and can traverse edges. This problem has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

In addition to its crucial impact on customer satisfaction, last-mile delivery (LMD) is notorious for being the most time-consuming and costly stage of the shipping process. Pressing environmental concerns combined with the recent surge of…