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The paper considers the problem of planning a set of non-conflict trajectories for the coalition of intelligent agents (mobile robots). Two divergent approaches, e.g. centralized and decentralized, are surveyed and analyzed. Decentralized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev

Collision avoidance is one of the most primary requirement in the decentralized multiagent navigations: while the agents are moving towards their own targets, attentions should be paid to avoid the collisions with the others. In this paper,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Li Ning , Yong Zhang

In important applications involving multi-task networks with multiple objectives, agents in the network need to decide between these multiple objectives and reach an agreement about which single objective to follow for the network. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Sahar Khawatmi , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Ali H. Sayed

The objective of meta-learning is to exploit the knowledge obtained from observed tasks to improve adaptation to unseen tasks. As such, meta-learners are able to generalize better when they are trained with a larger number of observed tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mert Kayaalp , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

This paper studies a novel planning problem for multiple agents that cannot share holding resources, named OTIMAPP (Offline Time-Independent Multi-Agent Path Planning). Given a graph and a set of start-goal pairs, the problem consists in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Keisuke Okumura , François Bonnet , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Défago

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is concerned with planning collision-free paths for a team of agents from their start to goal locations in an environment cluttered with obstacles. Typical approaches for MAPF consider the locations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 David Vainshtein , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

This paper presents a novel decentralized control strategy for a multi-robot system that enables parallel multi-target exploration while ensuring a time-varying connected topology in cluttered 3D environments. Flexible continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Thomas Nestmeyer , Paolo Robuffo Giordano , Heinrich H. Bülthoff , Antonio Franchi

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) deals with finding conflict-free paths for a set of agents from an initial configuration to a given target configuration. The Lifelong MAPF (LMAPF) problem is a well-studied online version of MAPF in which an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jonathan Morag , Noy Gabay , Daniel koyfman , Roni Stern

Fully decentralized, multiagent trajectory planners enable complex tasks like search and rescue or package delivery by ensuring safe navigation in unknown environments. However, deconflicting trajectories with other agents and ensuring…

We investigate a multi-agent planning problem, where each agent aims to achieve an individual task while avoiding collisions with others. We assume that each agent's task is expressed as a Time-Window Temporal Logic (TWTL) specification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Ryan Peterson , Ali Tevfik Buyukkocak , Derya Aksaray , Yasin Yazicioglu

We consider a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem where each agent seeks to maximize a shared reward while interacting with other agents, and they may or may not be able to communicate. Typically the agents do not have access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Alex Tong Lin , Mark J. Debord , Katia Estabridis , Gary Hewer , Guido Montufar , Stanley Osher

The Travelling Salesman and its variations are some of the most well known NP hard optimisation problems. This paper looks to use both centralised and decentralised implementations of Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) to solve a dynamic variant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Thomas E. Kent , Arthur G. Richards

In the graph exploration problem, a team of mobile computational entities, called agents, arbitrarily positioned at some nodes of a graph, must cooperate so that each node is eventually visited by at least one agent. In the literature, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Stefan Dobrev , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Swarm guidance addresses a challenging problem considering the navigation and control of a group of passive agents. To solve this problem, shepherding offers a bio-inspired technique of navigating such group of agents by using external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Aiyi Li , Masaki Ogura , Naoki Wakamiya

We propose a distributed planning method with asynchronous execution for multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problems for environments with occasional delays in agents' activities and flexible endpoints. MAPD is a crucial problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuki Miyashita , Tomoki Yamauchi , Toshiharu Sugawara

Challenges in real-world robotic applications often stem from managing multiple, dynamically varying entities such as neighboring robots, manipulable objects, and navigation goals. Existing multi-agent control strategies face scalability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Tianxu An , Joonho Lee , Marko Bjelonic , Flavio De Vincenti , Marco Hutter

Autonomous exploration is an application of growing importance in robotics. A promising strategy is ergodic trajectory planning, whereby an agent spends in each area a fraction of time which is proportional to its probability information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Dimitris Gkouletsos , Andrea Iannelli , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , John Lygeros

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zihao Mao , Yunheng Wang , Yunting Ji , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song