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Travel time in urban centers is a significant contributor to the quality of living of its citizens. Mobility on Demand (MoD) services such as Uber and Lyft have revolutionized the transportation infrastructure, enabling new solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Yue Guan , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , H. Eric Tseng

Current validation methods often rely on recorded data and basic functional checks, which may not be sufficient to encompass the scenarios an autonomous vehicle might encounter. In addition, there is a growing need for complex scenarios…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Marc Kaufeld , Rainer Trauth , Johannes Betz

A novel framework is proposed for cellular offloading with the aid of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), while the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique is employed at each UAV to further improve the spectrum efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ruikang Zhong , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen

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

In Multiagent Path Finding (MAPF), the goal is to compute efficient, collision-free paths for multiple agents navigating a network from their sources to targets, minimizing the schedule's makespan-the total time until all agents reach their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Foivos Fioravantes , Dušan Knop , Nikolaos Melissinos , Michal Opler

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) is the problem of planning collision-free trajectories from start to goal locations for a team of agents. This work explores a relatively unexplored setting of MAPP where streams of agents have to go through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura

Multi-agent learning provides a potential framework for learning and simulating traffic behaviors. This paper proposes a novel architecture to learn multiple driving behaviors in a traffic scenario. The proposed architecture can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Meha Kaushik , Phaniteja S , K. Madhava Krishna

In this paper, a novel hybrid multi-robot motion planner that can be applied under non-communication and local observable conditions is presented. The planner is model-free and can realize the end-to-end mapping of multi-robot state and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zichen He , Lu Dong , Chunwei Song , Changyin Sun

Multi-agent path planning is a critical challenge in robotics, requiring agents to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions and optimizing travel efficiency. This work addresses the limitations of existing approaches by…

Finding feasible, collision-free paths for multiagent systems can be challenging, particularly in non-communicating scenarios where each agent's intent (e.g. goal) is unobservable to the others. In particular, finding time efficient paths…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Yu Fan Chen , Miao Liu , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

Generative agents offer promising capabilities for simulating realistic urban behaviors. However, existing methods oversimplify transportation choices, rely heavily on static agent profiles leading to behavioral homogenization, and inherit…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiaotong Ye , Nicolas Bougie , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Narimasa Watanabe

The evolution of existing transportation systems, mainly driven by urbanization and increased availability of mobility options, such as private, profit-maximizing ride-hailing companies, calls for tools to reason about their design and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Margarita Zambrano , Xinling Li , Riccardo Fiorista , Gioele Zardini

Scalable multi-agent driving simulation requires behavior models that are both realistic and computationally efficient. We address this by optimizing the behavior model that controls individual traffic participants. To improve efficiency,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Fabian Konstantinidis , Moritz Sackmann , Ulrich Hofmann , Christoph Stiller

Predicting future locations of agents in the scene is an important problem in self-driving. In recent years, there has been a significant progress in representing the scene and the agents in it. The interactions of agents with the scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Görkay Aydemir , Adil Kaan Akan , Fatma Güney

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are considered as flexible loads since their charging schedules can be shifted over the course of a day without impacting drivers mobility. This property can be exploited to reduce charging costs and adverse…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Javad Mohammadi , Marina Gonzalez Vaya , Soummya Kar , Gabriela Hug

A multi-modal transport system is acknowledged to have robust failure tolerance and can effectively relieve urban congestion issues. However, estimating the impact of disruptions across multi-transport modes is a challenging problem due to…

In this paper, we present a novel approach to efficiently generate collision-free optimal trajectories for multiple non-holonomic mobile robots in obstacle-rich environments. Our approach first employs a graph-based multi-agent path planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Juncheng Li , Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

Cooperative autonomous driving plays a pivotal role in improving road capacity and safety within intelligent transportation systems, particularly through the deployment of autonomous vehicles on urban streets. By enabling vehicle-to-vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Ahmed Abdelrahman , Omar M. Shehata , Yarah Basyoni , Elsayed I. Morgan

Collaborative object transportation using multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with limited communication is a challenging problem. In this paper we address the problem of multiple MAVs mechanically coupled to a bulky object for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Andrea Tagliabue , Mina Kamel , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

The performance of multimodal mobility systems relies on the seamless integration of conventional mass transit services and the advent of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services. Prior work is limited to individually improving various transport…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Qi Luo , Samitha Samaranayake , Siddhartha Banerjee