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On an assigned graph, the problem of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) consists in finding paths for multiple agents, avoiding collisions. Finding the minimum-length solution is known to be NP-hard, and computation times grows exponentially…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Stefano Ardizzoni , Irene Saccani , Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) in crowded environments presents a challenging problem in motion planning, aiming to find collision-free paths for all agents in the system. MAPF finds a wide range of applications in various domains,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Phu Pham , Aniket Bera

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a problem of finding a sequence of movements for agents to reach their assigned location without collision. Centralized algorithms usually give optimal solutions, but have difficulties to scale without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Poom Pianpak , Tran Cao Son

The evolution of metropolitan cities and the increase in travel demands impose stringent requirements on traffic assignment methods. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches outperform traditional methods in modeling adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Leizhen Wang , Peibo Duan , Cheng Lyu , Zewen Wang , Zhiqiang He , Nan Zheng , Zhenliang Ma

We investigate multi-agent navigation tasks, where multiple agents need to reach initially unassigned goals in a limited time. Classical planning-based methods suffer from expensive computation overhead at each step and offer limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xinyi Yang , Xinting Yang , Chao Yu , Jiayu Chen , Wenbo Ding , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

We examine the dynamic network flow problem under the assumption that the flow consists of discrete units. The dynamic network flow problem is commonly addressed in the context of developing evacuation plans, where the flow is typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Bubai Manna , Bodhayan Roy , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) involves planning efficient paths for multiple agents to move simultaneously while avoiding collisions. In typical warehouse environments, agents are often sparsely distributed along aisles; however,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hiroya Makino , Seigo Ito

This paper presents a new simulation-based approach to address the stochastic Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) problem, focusing on large congested networks and dynamic settings. The proposed methodology incorporates a random walk model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mozhgan Pourmoradnasseri , Sadok Ben Yahia , Amnir Hadachi

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental motion coordination problem arising in multi-agent systems with a wide range of applications. The problem's intractability has led to extensive research on improving the scalability of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tzvika Geft

This paper focuses on two commonly used path assignment policies for agents traversing a congested network: self-interested routing, and system-optimum routing. In the self-interested routing policy each agent selects a path that optimizes…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Guni Sharon , Michael Albert , Tarun Rambha , Stephen Boyles , Peter Stone

This paper addresses the challenge of multi-agent path planning for efficient data collection in dynamic, uncertain environments, exemplified by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) navigating the Gulf of Mexico. Traditional greedy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ted Edward Holmberg , Elias Ioup , Mahdi Abdelguerfi

This paper presents a distributed, efficient, scalable and real-time motion planning algorithm for a large group of agents moving in 2 or 3-dimensional spaces. This algorithm enables autonomous agents to generate individual trajectories…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Samaneh Hosseini Semnani , Anton de Ruiter , Hugh Liu

In this paper we present a queueing network approach to the problem of routing and rebalancing a fleet of self-driving vehicles providing on-demand mobility within a capacitated road network. We refer to such systems as autonomous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ramon Iglesias , Federico Rossi , Rick Zhang , Marco Pavone

Managing all the mobility and transportation services with autonomous vehicles for users of a smart city requires determining the assignment of the vehicles to the users and their routing in conjunction with their speed. Such decisions must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Tommaso Giovannelli , Luis Nunes Vicente

Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

We derive a learning framework to generate routing/pickup policies for a fleet of autonomous vehicles tasked with servicing stochastically appearing requests on a city map. We focus on policies that 1) give rise to coordination amongst the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Daniel Garces , Sushmita Bhattacharya , Stephanie Gil , Dimitri Bertsekas

This paper introduces an energy-efficient, software-defined vehicular edge network for the growing intelligent connected transportation system. A joint user-centric virtual cell formation and resource allocation problem is investigated to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Md Ferdous Pervej , Shih-Chun Lin

With the advent of self-driving cars, experts envision autonomous mobility-on-demand services in the near future to cope with overloaded transportation systems in cities worldwide. Efficient operations are imperative to unlock such a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 G. Hiermann , M. Schiffer

This paper studies congestion-aware route-planning policies for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, whereby a fleet of autonomous vehicles provides on-demand mobility under mixed traffic conditions. Specifically, we first devise a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-11 Salomón Wollenstein-Betech , Arian Houshmand , Mauro Salazar , Marco Pavone , Christos G. Cassandras , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill