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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

This paper proposes an online path planning and motion generation algorithm for heterogeneous robot teams performing target search in a real-world environment. Path selection for each robot is optimized using an information-theoretic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Minkyu Kim , Ryan Gupta , Luis Sentis

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has gained significant attention, with most research focusing on minimizing collisions and travel time. This paper also considers energy consumption in the path planning of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ahmad Kokhahi , Mary Kurz

The ultimate navigation efficiency of mobile robots in human environments will depend on how we will appraise them: merely as impersonal machines or as human-like agents. In the latter case, an agent may take advantage of the cooperative…

Travel sharing, i.e., the problem of finding parts of routes which can be shared by several travellers with different points of departure and destinations, is a complex multiagent problem that requires taking into account individual agents'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Jan Hrnčíř , Michael Rovatsos

Multi-agent routing problems have gained significant attention recently due to their wide range of industrial applications, ranging from logistics warehouse automation to indoor service robots. Conventionally, they are modeled as classical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Fengming Zhu , Fangzhen Lin

In the context of ground robot navigation in unstructured hazardous environments, the coupling of efficient path planning with an adequate environment representation is a crucial topic in order to guarantee the robot safety while ensuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Quentin Serdel , Julien Marzat , Julien Moras

This paper proposes a new 3D gas distribution mapping technique based on the local message passing of Gaussian belief propagation that is capable of resolving in real time, concentration estimates in 3D space whilst accounting for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Callum Rhodes , Cunjia Liu , Wen-Hua Chen

Efficient planning in dynamic and uncertain environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics. In the context of trajectory optimization, the feasibility of paths can change as the environment evolves. Therefore, it can be beneficial to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Keshav Kolur , Sahit Chintalapudi , Byron Boots , Mustafa Mukadam

Path planning in obstacle-dense environments is a key challenge in robotics, and depends on inferring scene attributes and associated uncertainties. We present a multiple-hypothesis path planner designed to navigate complex environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Brian H. Wang , Beatriz Asfora , Rachel Zheng , Aaron Peng , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

For many tasks, multi-robot teams often provide greater efficiency, robustness, and resiliency. However, multi-robot collaboration in real-world scenarios poses a number of major challenges, especially when dynamic robots must balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mark Gonzales , Adam Polevoy , Marin Kobilarov , Joseph Moore

Many safety-critical real-world problems, such as autonomous driving and collaborative robots, are of a distributed multi-agent nature. To optimize the performance of these systems while ensuring safety, we can cast them as distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Abdullah Tokmak , Thomas B. Schön , Dominik Baumann

The multi-agent path finding (MAPF) problem is a combinatorial search problem that aims at finding paths for multiple agents (e.g., robots) in an environment (e.g., an autonomous warehouse) such that no two agents collide with each other,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aysu Bogatarkan , Esra Erdem

Coordinating agents through hazardous environments, such as aid-delivering drones navigating conflict zones or field robots traversing deployment areas filled with obstacles, poses fundamental planning challenges. We introduce and analyze…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Andrzej Kaczmarczyk , Šimon Schierreich , Nicholas Axel Tanujaya , Haifeng Xu

Path Planning and target searching in a three-dimensional environment is a challenging task in the field of robotics. It is an optimization problem as the path from source to destination has to be optimal. This paper aims to generate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Devansh Verma , Priyansh Saxena , Ritu Tiwari

Information gathering algorithms play a key role in unlocking the potential of robots for efficient data collection in a wide range of applications. However, most existing strategies neglect the fundamental problem of the robot pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Jen Jen Chung , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

There is a gap in risk assessment of trajectories between the trajectory information coming from a traffic motion prediction module and what is actually needed. Closing this gap necessitates advancements in prediction beyond current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Marlon Steiner , Marvin Klemp , Christoph Stiller

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics that asks us to compute collision-free paths for a team of agents, all moving across a shared map. Although many works appear on this topic, all current algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey

In this paper, we consider the problem of providing robustness to adversarial communication in multi-agent systems. Specifically, we propose a solution towards robust cooperation, which enables the multi-agent system to maintain high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Rupert Mitchell , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma