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This paper addresses the challenge of navigating unmanned aerial vehicles in contested environments by introducing a cooperative multi-agent framework that increases the likelihood of safe UAV traversal. The approach involves two types of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Grant Stagg , Cameron K. Peterson

Multi-agent collaborative perception as a potential application for vehicle-to-everything communication could significantly improve the perception performance of autonomous vehicles over single-agent perception. However, several challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Kun Yang , Dingkang Yang , Jingyu Zhang , Mingcheng Li , Yang Liu , Jing Liu , Hanqi Wang , Peng Sun , Liang Song

Semantic navigation requires an agent to navigate toward a specified target in an unseen environment. Employing an imaginative navigation strategy that predicts future scenes before taking action, can empower the agent to find target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yue Hu , Junzhe Wu , Ruihan Xu , Hang Liu , Avery Xi , Henry X. Liu , Ram Vasudevan , Maani Ghaffari

Many modern robotics applications require robots to function autonomously in dynamic environments including other decision making agents, such as people or other robots. This calls for fast and scalable interactive motion planning. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-27 A. Bordallo , F. Previtali , N. Nardelli , S. Ramamoorthy

Multi-agent trajectory planning requires ensuring both safety and efficiency, yet deadlocks remain a significant challenge, especially in obstacle-dense environments. Such deadlocks frequently occur when multiple agents attempt to traverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haoze Dong , Meng Guo , Chengyi He , Zhongkui Li

Path planning and collision avoidance are challenging in complex and highly variable environments due to the limited horizon of events. In literature, there are multiple model- and learning-based approaches that require significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Carlo Tiseo , Vladimir Ivan , Wolfgang Merkt , Ioannis Havoutis , Michael Mistry , Sethu Vijayakumar

High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

In this paper, we present the design of a multimodal interaction framework for intelligent virtual agents in wearable mixed reality environments, especially for interactive applications at museums, botanical gardens, and similar places.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ghazanfar Ali , Hong-Quan Le , Junho Kim , Seoung-won Hwang , Jae-In Hwang

We deal with the navigation problem where the agent follows natural language instructions while observing the environment. Focusing on language understanding, we show the importance of spatial semantics in grounding navigation instructions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Yue Zhang , Quan Guo , Parisa Kordjamshidi

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

If a robotic agent wants to exploit symbolic planning techniques to achieve some goal, it must be able to properly ground an abstract planning domain in the environment in which it operates. However, if the environment is initially unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Leonardo Lamanna , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Saetti , Alfonso Gerevini , Paolo Traverso

The deployment of autonomous service robots in human-centric environments is hindered by a critical gap in perception and planning. Traditional navigation systems rely on expensive LiDARs that, while geometrically precise, are semantically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Praveen Kumar , Tushar Sandhan

Large language model (LLM) agents have shown increasing promise for collaborative task completion. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often rely on static workflows, fixed roles, and limited inter-agent communication, reducing their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Chengxuan Xia , Qianye Wu , Sixuan Tian , Yilun Hao

This work presents a density-based framework for safe navigation in dynamic environments characterized by time-varying obstacle sets and time-varying target regions. We propose an analytical construction of time-varying density functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sriram S. K. S Narayanan , Joseph Moyalan , Umesh Vaidya

The rapid proliferation of large language model (LLM)-based agentic systems raises critical concerns regarding digital sovereignty, environmental sustainability, regulatory compliance, and ethical alignment. Whilst existing frameworks…

The convergence of Agentic AI and MAS enables a new paradigm for intelligent decision making in SMS. Traditional MAS architectures emphasize distributed coordination and specialized autonomy, while recent advances in agentic AI driven by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mojtaba A. Farahani , Md Irfan Khan , Thorsten Wuest

Collaborative perception in automated vehicles leverages the exchange of information between agents, aiming to elevate perception results. Previous camera-based collaborative 3D perception methods typically employ 3D bounding boxes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Rui Song , Chenwei Liang , Hu Cao , Zhiran Yan , Walter Zimmer , Markus Gross , Andreas Festag , Alois Knoll

This paper presents a novel control strategy for the coordination of a multi-agent system subject to high-level goals expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. In particular, each agent, which is modeled as a sphere with 2nd order…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Mapping and navigation have gone hand-in-hand since long before robots existed. Maps are a key form of communication, allowing someone who has never been somewhere to nonetheless navigate that area successfully. In the context of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ian D. Miller , Fernando Cladera , Trey Smith , Camillo Jose Taylor , Vijay Kumar

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with microscopic traffic simulation offers a promising path toward autonomous urban planning and intelligent transportation analysis. However, existing monolithic agent architectures often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shuyang Li , Ruimin Ke