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To accurately predict trajectories in multi-agent settings, e.g. team games, it is important to effectively model the interactions among agents. Whereas a number of methods have been developed for this purpose, existing methods implicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zikai Wei , Xinge Zhu , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

We develop a hierarchical LLM-task-motion planning and replanning framework to efficiently ground an abstracted human command into tangible Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) control through enhanced representations of the world. We also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ruochu Yang , Fumin Zhang , Mengxue Hou

This paper focuses on developing new navigation and reconnaissance capabilities for cooperative unmanned systems in uncertain environments. The goal is to design a cooperative multi-vehicle system that can survey an unknown environment and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lingfeng Sun , Yixiao Wang , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Xiang Zhang , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Motivated by exploration of communication-constrained underground environments using robot teams, we study the problem of planning for intermittent connectivity in multi-agent systems. We propose a novel concept of information-consistency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Filip Klaesson , Petter Nilsson , Aaron D. Ames , Richard M. Murray

Giving autonomous agents the ability to forecast their own outcomes and uncertainty will allow them to communicate their competencies and be used more safely. We accomplish this by using a learned world model of the agent system to forecast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Aastha Acharya , Rebecca Russell , Nisar R. Ahmed

Everyday tasks are characterized by their varieties and variations, and frequently are not clearly specified to service agents. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to enable a service agent to deal with everyday tasks in open,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hao Yang , Tavan Eftekhar , Chad Esselink , Yan Ding , Shiqi Zhang

Robot navigation traditionally relies on building an explicit map that is used to plan collision-free trajectories to a desired target. In deformable, complex terrain, using geometric-based approaches can fail to find a path due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Adam Polevoy , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek , Kapil D. Katyal

We introduce the problem of Dynamic Real-time Multimodal Routing (DREAMR), which requires planning and executing routes under uncertainty for an autonomous agent. The agent has access to a time-varying transit vehicle network in which it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Shushman Choudhury , Jacob P. Knickerbocker , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Achieving mission objectives in a realistic simulation of aerial combat is highly challenging due to imperfect situational awareness and nonlinear flight dynamics. In this work, we introduce a novel 3D multi-agent air combat environment and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ardian Selmonaj , Giacomo Del Rio , Adrian Schneider , Alessandro Antonucci

To achieve autonomy in complex real-world exploration missions, we consider deployment strategies for a team of robots with heterogeneous autonomy capabilities. In this work, we formulate a multi-robot exploration mission and compute an…

In this paper, we focus on the problem of task allocation, cooperative path planning and motion coordination of the large-scale system with thousands of robots, aiming for practical applications in robotic warehouses and automated logistics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Shunbo Zhou , Yi Shen , Yun-Hui Liu

Visual planning methods are promising to handle complex settings where extracting the system state is challenging. However, none of the existing works tackles the case of multiple heterogeneous agents which are characterized by different…

Hierarchical task decomposition is a method used in many agent systems to organize agent knowledge. This work shows how the combination of a hierarchy and persistent assertions of knowledge can lead to difficulty in maintaining logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-27 J. E. Laird , R. E. Wray

Correct-by-construction manipulation planning in a dynamic environment, where other agents can manipulate objects in the workspace, is a challenging problem. The tight coupling of actions and motions between agents and complexity of mission…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Alireza Partovi , Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Hai Lin

This paper presents a hybrid control framework for the motion planning of a multi-agent system including N robotic agents and M objects, under high level goals. In particular, we design control protocols that allow the transition of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Christos Verginis , Dimos Dimarogonas

In open multi-agent environments, the agents may encounter unexpected teammates. Classical multi-agent learning approaches train agents that can only coordinate with seen teammates. Recent studies attempted to generate diverse teammates to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Lei Yuan , Lihe Li , Ziqian Zhang , Feng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Cong Guan , Yang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have empowered autonomous web agents to execute natural language instructions directly on real-world webpages. However, existing agents often struggle with complex tasks involving dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Lingfeng Zhang , Yongan Sun , Jinpeng Hu , Hui Ma , Yang Ying , Kuien Liu , Zenglin Shi , Meng Wang

Intelligent agent systems in real-world agricultural scenarios must handle diverse tasks under multimodal inputs, ranging from lightweight information understanding to complex multi-step execution. However, most existing approaches rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Bo Yang , Yu Zhang , Yunkui Chen , Lanfei Feng , Xiao Xu , Nueraili Aierken , Shijian Li

Collective learning can be greatly enhanced when agents effectively exchange knowledge with their peers. In particular, recent work studying agents that learn to teach other teammates has demonstrated that action advising accelerates…