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Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires collision-free trajectories for multiple agents on a shared graph, often with the objective of minimizing the sum-of-costs (SOC). Many optimal and bounded-suboptimal solvers rely on time-expanded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fernando Salanova , Eduardo Montijano , Cristian Mahulea

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is a problem that seeks collision-free dynamically-feasible trajectories for multiple moving agents in a known environment while minimizing their travel time. MAMP is closely related to the well-studied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jingtian Yan , Jiaoyang Li

Avoiding collisions is the core problem in multi-agent navigation. In decentralized settings, when agents have limited communication and sensory capabilities, collisions are typically avoided in a reactive fashion, relying on local…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Stepan Dergachev , Konstantin Yakovlev

Imagine the future construction site, hospital, or office with dozens of robots bought from different manufacturers. How can we enable these different robots to effectively move in a shared environment, given that each robot may have its…

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires computing collision-free paths for multiple agents in shared environment. Most MAPF planners assume that each agent reaches a specific location at a specific timestep, but this is infeasible to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yifan Su , Rishi Veerapaneni , Jiaoyang Li

Coalition formation typically involves the coming together of multiple, heterogeneous, agents to achieve both their individual and collective goals. In this paper, we focus on a special case of coalition formation known as Graph-Constrained…

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a team of agents on a map. Although MAPF is NP-hard, the hardness of solving individual instances varies significantly, revealing a gap between theoretical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jingyao Ren , Eric Ewing , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental coordination problem in large-scale robotic and cyber-physical systems, where multiple agents must compute conflict-free trajectories with limited computational and communication resources.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kevin Riehl , Julius Schlapbach , Anastasios Kouvelas , Michail A. Makridis

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning conflict-free paths from the designated start locations to goal positions for multiple agents. It underlies a variety of real-world tasks, including multi-robot coordination,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhanjiang Yang , Yang Shen , Yueming Li , Meng Li , Lijun Sun

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) in large networks is computationally challenging. An approach for MAPF is prioritized planning (PP), in which agents plan sequentially according to their priority. Albeit a computationally efficient approach…

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

Multi-Agent Path Finding has been widely studied in the past few years due to its broad application in the field of robotics and AI. However, previous solvers rely on several simplifying assumptions. They limit their applicability in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Licheng Wen , Zhen Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is well-studied in artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical computer science and operations research. We discuss issues that arise when generalizing MAPF methods to real-world scenarios and four…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian , Liron Cohen , Wolfgang Hoenig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Tansel Uras , Hong Xu , Craig Tovey , Guni Sharon

Multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) is a critical challenge in applications such as connected autonomous vehicles and multi-robot systems. In this paper, we propose a space-time conflict resolution approach for MAMP. We formulate the problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Anirudh Chari , Rui Chen , Changliu Liu

In this work we study a well-known and challenging problem of Multi-agent Pathfinding, when a set of agents is confined to a graph, each agent is assigned a unique start and goal vertices and the task is to find a set of collision-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yelisey Pitanov , Alexey Skrynnik , Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov

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

The Coalition Formation with Spatial and Temporal constraints Problem (CFSTP) is a multi-agent task scheduling problem where the tasks are spatially distributed, with deadlines and workloads, and the number of agents is typically much…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Luca Capezzuto , Danesh Tarapore , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn

The problem of Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) consists in providing agents with efficient paths while preventing collisions. Numerous solvers have been developed so far since MAPF is critical for practical applications such as automated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Défago

We present a novel algorithm for large-scale Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) that enables fast, scalable planning in dynamic environments such as automated warehouses. Our approach introduces finite-horizon hierarchical factorization, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiarui Li , Alessandro Zanardi , Gioele Zardini

Constraint Optimization Problems (COP) pose intricate challenges in combinatorial problems usually addressed through Branch and Bound (B\&B) methods, which involve maintaining priority queues and iteratively selecting branches to search for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yingkai Xiao , Jingjin Liu , Hankz Hankui Zhuo