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We consider the problem of multi-robot path planning in a complex, cluttered environment with the aim of reducing overall congestion in the environment, while avoiding any inter-robot communication or coordination. Such limitations may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiaolong Wang , Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

Multi-agent systems built from prompted large language models can improve multi-round reasoning, yet most existing pipelines rely on fixed, trajectory-wide communication patterns that are poorly matched to the stage-dependent needs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuxing Lu , Yucheng Hu , Xukai Zhao , Jiuxin Cao

Predicting future trajectories of surrounding obstacles is a crucial task for autonomous driving cars to achieve a high degree of road safety. There are several challenges in trajectory prediction in real-world traffic scenarios, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Bo Dong , Hao Liu , Yu Bai , Jinbiao Lin , Zhuoran Xu , Xinyu Xu , Qi Kong

One of the standing challenges in multi-robot systems is the ability to reliably coordinate motions of multiple robots in environments where the robots are subject to disturbances. We consider disturbances that force the robot to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Michal Čáp , Jean Gregoire , Emilio Frazzoli

Motivated by the fact that intelligent traffic control systems have become inevitable demand to cope with the risk of traffic congestion in urban areas, this paper develops a distributed control strategy for urban traffic networks. Since…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Viet Hoang Pham , Kazunori Sakurama , Shaoshuai Mou , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Multiagent systems consist of agents that locally exchange information through a physical network subject to a graph topology. Current control methods for networked multiagent systems assume the knowledge of graph topologies in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Tansel Yucelen , John Daniel Peterson , Kevin L. Moore

Homotopy optimization is a traditional method to deal with a complicated optimization problem by solving a sequence of easy-to-hard surrogate subproblems. However, this method can be very sensitive to the continuation schedule design and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

We introduce the problem of Dynamic Real-time Multimodal Routing (DREAMR), which requires planning and executing routes under uncertainty for an autonomous agent. The agent has access to a time-varying transit vehicle network in which it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Shushman Choudhury , Jacob P. Knickerbocker , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Simultaneous trajectory prediction for multiple heterogeneous traffic participants is essential for the safe and efficient operation of connected automated vehicles under complex driving situations in the real world. The multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiaoyu Mo , Yang Xing , Chen Lv

This paper proposes an algorithm for motion planning among dynamic agents using adaptive conformal prediction. We consider a deterministic control system and use trajectory predictors to predict the dynamic agents' future motion, which is…

We study asynchronous distributed decision-making for scalable multi-agent bandit submodular maximization. We are motivated by distributed information-gathering tasks in unknown environments and under heterogeneous inter-agent communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pranjal Sharma , Zirui Xu , Vasileios Tzoumas

Developing safe human-robot interaction systems is a necessary step towards the widespread integration of autonomous agents in society. A key component of such systems is the ability to reason about the many potential futures (e.g.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

For safe navigation in dynamic uncertain environments, robotic systems rely on the perception and prediction of other agents. Particularly, in occluded areas where cameras and LiDAR give no data, the robot must be able to reason about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Roya Firoozi , Alexandre Mir , Gadi Sznaier Camps , Mac Schwager

Despite recent progress on trajectory planning of multiple robots and path planning of a single tethered robot, planning of multiple tethered robots to reach their individual targets without entanglements remains a challenging problem. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Muqing Cao , Kun Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

We present an algorithm for a multi-agent path planning problem with pattern coordination based on dynamic programming and a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. This falls broadly into the class of partial differential equation (PDE) based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Christian Parkinson , Adan Baca

We investigate the problem of designing delay-aware joint flow control, routing, and scheduling algorithms in general multi-hop networks for maximizing network utilization. Since the end-to-end delay performance has a complex dependence on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Haozhi Xiong , Ruogu Li , Atilla Eryilmaz , Eylem Ekici

Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jingchuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jing Li , Xiguang Wei , Wenzhe Tan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hongbo Li

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is an abstract model for the navigation of multiple robots in warehouse automation, where multiple robots plan collision-free paths from the start to goal positions. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jianqi Gao , Yanjie Li , Xiaoqing Yang , Mingshan Tan

In this paper, we present a receding-horizon, sampling-based planner capable of reasoning over multimodal policy distributions. By using the cross-entropy method to optimize a multimodal policy under a common cost function, our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mark Gonzales , Ethan Oh , Joseph Moore

This paper investigates the online motion coordination problem for a group of mobile robots moving in a shared workspace. Based on the realistic assumptions that each robot is subject to both velocity and input constraints and can have only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas