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Safe motion planning algorithms are necessary for deploying autonomous robots in unstructured environments. Motion plans must be safe to ensure that the robot does not harm humans or damage any nearby objects. Generating these motion plans…

A fundamental challenge in multi-robot motion planning is achieving sufficient coordination to avoid inter-robot conflicts without incurring the large computational expense of searching the joint configuration space of the robot group. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Isaac Ngui , Courtney McBeth , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

The multiple-path orienteering problem asks for paths for a team of robots that maximize the total reward collected while satisfying budget constraints on the path length. This problem models many multi-robot routing tasks such as exploring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Guangyao Shi , Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

We consider the uncertain multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) problem with cooperative localization (CL-MRMP), under both motion and measurement noise, where each robot can act as a sensor for its nearby teammates. We formalize CL-MRMP as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Anne Theurkauf , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

We address multi-robot safe mission planning in uncertain dynamic environments. This problem arises in several applications including safety-critical exploration, surveillance, and emergency rescue missions. Computation of a multi-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Daniel Tihanyi , Yimeng Lu , Orcun Karaca , Maryam Kamgarpour

Bearing measurements,as the most common modality in nature, have recently gained traction in multi-robot systems to enhance mutual localization and swarm collaboration. Despite their advantages, challenges such as sensory noise, obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yingjian Wang , Xiangyong Wen , Fei Gao

This paper studies, for the first time, the trajectory planning problem in adversarial environments, where the objective is to design the trajectory of a robot to reach a desired final state despite the unknown and arbitrary action of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Yin-Chen Liu , Gianluca Bianchin , Fabio Pasqualetti

The problem of multi-robot coverage control has been widely studied to efficiently coordinate a team of robots to cover a desired area of interest. However, this problem faces significant challenges when some robots are lost or deviate from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kartik A. Pant , Vishnu Vijay , Minhyun Cho , Inseok Hwang

Planning for multi-robot teams in complex environments is a challenging problem, especially when these teams must coordinate to accomplish a common objective. In general, optimal solutions to these planning problems are computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cora A. Dimmig , Kevin C. Wolfe , Joseph Moore

In multi-robot systems (MRS), cooperative localization is a crucial task for enhancing system robustness and scalability, especially in GPS-denied or communication-limited environments. However, adversarial attacks, such as sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Trajectory planning for multiple robots in shared environments is a challenging problem especially when there is limited communication available or no central entity. In this article, we present Real-time planning using Linear Spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian

In multi-robot multi-target tracking, robots coordinate to monitor groups of targets moving about an environment. We approach planning for such scenarios by formulating a receding-horizon, multi-robot sensing problem with a mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Micah Corah , Nathan Michael

An important real-world application of multi-robot systems is multi-robot patrolling (MRP), where robots must carry out the activity of going through an area at regular intervals. Motivations for MRP include the detection of anomalies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zachary R. Madin , Jonathan Lawry , Edmund R. Hunt

In large unknown environments, search operations can be much more time-efficient with the use of multi-robot fleets by parallelizing efforts. This means robots must efficiently perform collaborative mapping (exploration) while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Indraneel Patil , Rachel Zheng , Charvi Gupta , Jaekyung Song , Narendar Sriram , Katia Sycara

This paper addresses a synchronization problem that arises when a team of aerial robots (ARs) need to communicate while performing assigned tasks in a cooperative scenario. Each robot has a limited communication range and flies within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-15 J. M. Díaz-Báñez , L. E. Caraballo , M. A. Lopez , S. Bereg , I. Maza , A. Ollero

For massive large-scale tasks, a multi-robot system (MRS) can effectively improve efficiency by utilizing each robot's different capabilities, mobility, and functionality. In this paper, we focus on the multi-robot coverage path planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Jingtao Tang , Yuan Gao , Tin Lun Lam

Multi-robot planning and coordination in uncertain environments is a fundamental computational challenge, since the belief space increases exponentially with the number of robots. In this paper, we address the problem of planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cora A. Duggan , Kevin C. Wolfe , Bradley Woosley , Marin Kobilarov , Joseph Moore

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K

Teams of UGVs patrolling harsh and complex 3D environments can experience interference and spatial conflicts with one another. Neglecting the occurrence of these events crucially hinders both soundness and reliability of a patrolling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Luigi Freda , Mario Gianni , Fiora Pirri , Abel Gawel , Renaud Dube , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena