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Coordinating heterogeneous robot fleets to achieve multiple goals is challenging in multi-robot systems. We introduce an open-source and extensible framework for centralized multi-robot task planning and scheduling that leverages LLMs to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rohan Gupta , Trevor Asbery , Zain Merchant , Abrar Anwar , Jesse Thomason

Optimizing the consolidation process in container-based fulfillment centers requires trading off competing objectives such as processing speed, resource usage, and space utilization while adhering to a range of real-world operational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sikata Sengupta , Guangyi Liu , Omer Gottesman , Joseph W Durham , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Michael Caldara

This paper deals with large-scale decentralised task allocation problems for multiple heterogeneous robots with monotone submodular objective functions. One of the significant challenges with the large-scale decentralised task allocation…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Teng Li , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

We address multi-robot safe mission planning in uncertain dynamic environments. This problem arises in several applications including safety-critical exploration, surveillance, and emergency rescue missions. Computation of a multi-robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Daniel Tihanyi , Yimeng Lu , Orcun Karaca , Maryam Kamgarpour

This work focuses on the dual-arm object rearrangement problem abstracted from a realistic industrial scenario of Cartesian robots. The goal of this problem is to transfer all the objects from sources to targets with the minimum total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Shishun Zhang , Qijin She , Wenhao Li , Chenyang Zhu , Yongjun Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) is gaining traction in both academia and industry, with tasks on SC platforms becoming increasingly complex and requiring collaboration among workers with diverse skills. Recent research works address complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yong Zhao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Chen Gao , En Wang , Jincai Huang , Fei-Yue Wang

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

The increasing labor costs in agriculture have accelerated the adoption of multi-robot systems for orchard harvesting. However, efficiently coordinating these systems is challenging due to the complex interplay between makespan and energy…

In this article we propose a game-theoretic approach to the multi-robot task allocation problem using the framework of global games. Each task is associated with a global signal, a real-valued number that captures the task execution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Logan Beaver

To improve the efficiency of warehousing system and meet huge customer orders, we aim to solve the challenges of dimension disaster and dynamic properties in hyper scale multi-robot task planning (MRTP) for robotic mobile fulfillment system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xuan Zhou , Xiang Shi , Lele Zhang , Chen Chen , Hongbo Li , Lin Ma , Fang Deng , Jie Chen

Mobile robot fleets are currently used in different scenarios such as medical environments or logistics. The management of these systems provides different challenges that vary from the control of the movement of each robot to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Andrés Meseguer Valenzuela , Francisco Blanes Noguera

Object rearrangement is a fundamental problem in robotics with various practical applications ranging from managing warehouses to cleaning and organizing home kitchens. While existing research has primarily focused on single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Vivek Gupta , Praphpreet Dhir , Jeegn Dani , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Resource balancing within complex transportation networks is one of the most important problems in real logistics domain. Traditional solutions on these problems leverage combinatorial optimization with demand and supply forecasting.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Xihan Li , Jia Zhang , Jiang Bian , Yunhai Tong , Tie-Yan Liu

In dynamic urban logistics, the stochastic emergence of time-sensitive tasks poses a significant optimality challenge for heterogeneous AAVs logistics task allocation. To address this problem, a reinforcement learning enhanced overlapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuze Zhou , Jingliang Sun , Junzhi Li , Jianxin Zhong , Zihan Wang , Teng Long

In collaborative human-robot order picking systems, human pickers and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) travel independently through a warehouse and meet at pick locations where pickers load items onto the AMRs. In this paper, we consider an…

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

To realize effective heterogeneous multi-robot teams, researchers must leverage individual robots' relative strengths and coordinate their individual behaviors. Specifically, heterogeneous multi-robot systems must answer three important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Glen Neville , Andrew Messing , Harish Ravichandar , Seth Hutchinson , Sonia Chernova

Human-robot collaborative manufacturing, a core aspect of Industry 5.0, emphasizes ergonomics to enhance worker well-being. This paper addresses the dynamic human-robot task planning and allocation (HRTPA) problem, which involves…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jintao Xue , Xiao Li , Nianmin Zhang

Jointly learning multiple tasks with a unified model can improve accuracy and data efficiency, but it faces the challenge of task interference, where optimizing one task objective may inadvertently compromise the performance of another. A…

We introduce a novel strategy for multi-robot sorting of waste objects using Reinforcement Learning. Our focus lies on finding optimal picking strategies that facilitate an effective coordination of a multi-robot system, subject to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Tizian Jermann , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Fidel Esquivel Estay , Koen Kramer , Marco Hutter