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The trajectory planning for a fleet of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) on a roadmap is commonly referred to as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, the solution to which dictates each AGV's spatial and temporal location until it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Alexander Berndt , Niels van Duijkeren , Luigi Palmieri , Alexander Kleiner , Tamás Keviczky

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an NP-hard problem well studied in artificial intelligence and robotics. It has many real-world applications for which existing MAPF solvers use various heuristics. However, these solvers are deterministic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Liron Cohen , Glenn Wagner , T. K. Satish Kumar , Howie Choset , Sven Koenig

Distributing computations among agents in large networks reduces computational effort in multi-agent path finding (MAPF). One distribution strategy is prioritized planning (PP). In PP, we couple and prioritize interacting agents to achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Patrick Scheffe , Julius Kahle , Bassam Alrifaee

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) holds significant utility within autonomous systems, however, the calculation and memory space required for multi-agent path finding (MAPF) grows exponentially as the number of agents increases. This often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhuo Yao , Wei Wang

Multi-robot systems are integral to modern logistics, but their capabilities are often limited to tasks executable by individual agents. This paper addresses a critical gap in existing frameworks like Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ning Zhou , Nikolai W. F. Bode , Edmund R. Hunt

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a critical field in many large-scale robotic applications, often being the fundamental step in multi-agent systems. The increasing complexity of MAPF in complex and crowded environments, however, critically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Jaehoon Chung , Jamil Fayyad , Younes Al Younes , Homayoun Najjaran

Deploying multi-robot systems in environments shared with dynamic and uncontrollable agents presents significant challenges, especially for large robot fleets. In such environments, individual robot operations can be delayed due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Lukas Heuer , Yufei Zhu , Luigi Palmieri , Andrey Rudenko , Anna Mannucci , Sven Koenig , Martin Magnusson

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks collision-free paths for multiple agents from their respective start locations to their respective goal locations while minimizing path costs. Most existing MAPF algorithms rely on a common assumption…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuemian Wu , Shizhe Zhao , Zhongqiang Ren

With the explosive influence caused by the success of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT and GPT-4, there has been an extensive amount of recent work showing that foundation models can be used to solve a large variety of tasks.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Weizhe Chen , Sven Koenig , Bistra Dilkina

Among sub-optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers, rule-based algorithms are particularly appealing since they are complete. Even in crowded scenarios, they allow finding a feasible solution that brings each agent to its target,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Irene Saccani , Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

The goal of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is to find a set of paths for a fleet of agents moving in a shared environment such that the agents reach their goals without colliding with each other. In practice, some of the robots executing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-15 David Zahrádka , Denisa Mužíková , David Woller , Miroslav Kulich , Jiří Švancara , Roman Barták

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

We present Scalable Multi-Agent Realistic Testbed (SMART), a realistic and efficient software tool for evaluating Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms. MAPF focuses on planning collision-free paths for a group of robots. While…

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to move agents from their start to goal vertices on a graph. Lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) continuously assigns new goals to agents as they complete current ones. To guide agents' movement in LMAPF, prior works…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yulun Zhang , Varun Bhatt , Matthew C. Fontaine , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Jiaoyang Li

With the rapid progress in Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), researchers have studied how MAPF algorithms can be deployed to coordinate hundreds of robots in large automated warehouses. While most works try to improve the throughput of such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yulun Zhang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Varun Bhatt , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Jiaoyang Li

In Multiagent Path Finding (MAPF), the goal is to compute efficient, collision-free paths for multiple agents navigating a network from their sources to targets, minimizing the schedule's makespan-the total time until all agents reach their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Foivos Fioravantes , Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Michal Opler

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a team of agents to reach their goal locations. State-of-the-art classical MAPF solvers typically employ heuristic search to find solutions for hundreds of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Rishi Veerapaneni , Qian Wang , Kevin Ren , Arthur Jakobsson , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), i.e., finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, plays a critical role in many applications. Sometimes, assigning a target to each agent also presents a challenge. The Combined Target-Assignment and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yimin Tang , Sven Koenig , Jiaoyang Li

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a widely used abstraction for multi-robot trajectory planning problems, where multiple homogeneous agents move simultaneously within a shared environment. Although solving MAPF optimally is NP-hard,…

The study addressed the problem of Anonymous Multi-Agent Path-finding (AMAPF). Unlike the classical formulation, where the assignment of agents to goals is fixed, in the anonymous MAPF setting it is irrelevant which agent reaches specific…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Stepan Dergachev , Dmitry Avdeev