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In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, a set of agents moving on a graph must reach their own respective destinations without inter-agent collisions. In practical MAPF applications such as navigation in automated warehouses, where…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Keisuke Okumura , Manao Machida , Xavier Défago , Yasumasa Tamura

We present alternative approaches to routing and scheduling in Answer Set Programming (ASP), and explore them in the context of Multi-agent Path Finding. The idea is to capture the flow of time in terms of partial orders rather than time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Roland Kaminski , Torsten Schaub , Tran Cao Son , Jiří Švancara , Philipp Wanko

The goal of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is to find a set of paths for a fleet of agents moving in a shared environment such that the agents reach their goals without colliding with each other. In practice, some of the robots executing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-15 David Zahrádka , Denisa Mužíková , David Woller , Miroslav Kulich , Jiří Švancara , Roman Barták

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) in continuous spaces is a challenging problem with significant practical importance. One promising approach is to first construct graphs approximating the spaces, called roadmaps, and then apply multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Keisuke Okumura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Asako Kanezaki

In the evolving landscape of urban mobility, the prospective integration of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) with Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs) presents a complex array of challenges and opportunities for autonomous driving systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Han Zheng , Zhongxia Yan , Cathy Wu

Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) is a fundamental problem in robotics, particularly in applications such as warehouse automation and logistics. Existing solutions often face challenges in scalability, adaptability, and efficiency,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kushal Shah , Jihyun Park , Seung-Kyum Choi

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a common abstraction of multi-robot trajectory planning problems, where multiple homogeneous robots simultaneously move in the shared environment. While solving MAPF optimally has been proven to be NP-hard,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev , Aleksandr Panov , Alexey Skrynnik

Distributed Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) integrated with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has emerged as a prominent research focus, enabling real-time cooperative decision-making in partially observable environments through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Guotao Li , Shaoyun Xu , Yuexing Hao , Yang Wang , Yuhui Sun

The Simple Temporal Problem (STP) is a fundamental temporal reasoning problem and has recently been extended to the Multiagent Simple Temporal Problem (MaSTP). In this paper we present a novel approach that is based on enforcing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Shufeng Kong , Jae Hee Lee , Sanjiang Li

The Collaborative Task Sequencing and Multi-Agent Path Finding (CTS-MAPF) problem requires agents to accomplish sequences of tasks while avoiding collisions, posing significant challenges due to its combinatorial complexity. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Junkai Jiang , Yitao Xu , Ruochen Li , Shaobing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), which focuses on finding collision-free paths for multiple robots, is crucial in autonomous warehouse operations. Lifelong MAPF (L-MAPF), where agents are continuously reassigned new targets upon completing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yimin Tang , Zhenghong Yu , Yi Zheng , T. K. Satish Kumar , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

Anytime multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a promising approach to scalable path optimization in large-scale multi-agent systems. State-of-the-art anytime MAPF is based on Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), where a fast initial solution is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Thomy Phan , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina , Sven Koenig

Among sub-optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers, rule-based algorithms are particularly appealing since they are complete. Even in crowded scenarios, they allow finding a feasible solution that brings each agent to its target,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Irene Saccani , Stefano Ardizzoni , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

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 Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) is a challenging industrial problem where a team of robots is tasked with transporting a set of tasks, each from an initial location and each to a specified target location. Appearing in the context of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhe Chen , Javier Alonso-Mora , Xiaoshan Bai , Daniel D. Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey

Multi-Robot Path Planning (MRPP) on graphs, equivalently known as Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), is a well-established NP-hard problem with critically important applications. As serial computation in (near)-optimally solving MRPP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Teng Guo , Jingjin Yu

Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is critical for coordinating multiple robots in shared environments, yet robust execution of generated plans remains challenging due to operational uncertainties. The Action Dependency Graph (ADG) framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joachim Dunkel

Continuous-time Conflict Based-Search (CCBS) has long been viewed as the standard optimal baseline for multi-agent path finding in continuous time (MAPFR), yet recent critiques show that the theoretically described CCBS can fail to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

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

Agentic workflows carry out complex tasks by orchestrating multiple large language models (LLMs) and tools. Serving such workflows at a target throughput with low latency is challenging because they can be defined using arbitrary agentic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Marcel Wagenländer , Otto White , Britannio Jarrett , Pedro Silvestre , Yanda Tao , Guo Li , Huanzhou Zhu , Llúis Vilanova , Peter Pietzuch
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