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Multi Agent Path Finding (MAPF) seeks the optimal set of paths for multiple agents from respective start to goal locations such that no paths conflict. We address the MAPF problem for a fleet of hybrid-fuel unmanned aerial vehicles which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Drew Scott , Satyanarayana G. Manyam , David W. Casbeer , Manish Kumar , Isaac E. Weintraub

This paper addresses the challenges of real-time, large-scale, and near-optimal multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) through enhancements to the recently proposed LaCAM* algorithm. LaCAM* is a scalable search-based algorithm that guarantees the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Keisuke Okumura

Multi-robot navigation in cluttered environments presents fundamental challenges in balancing reactive collision avoidance with long-range goal achievement. When navigating through narrow passages or confined spaces, deadlocks frequently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Haoyi Wang , Licheng Luo , Yiannis Kantaros , Bruno Sinopoli , Mingyu Cai

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a representative multi-agent coordination problem, where multiple agents are required to navigate to their respective goals without collisions. Solving MAPF optimally is known to be NP-hard, leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rishabh Jain , Keisuke Okumura , Michael Amir , Pietro Lio , Amanda Prorok

Despite the recent successes of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, efficiently adapting to co-players in mixed-motive environments remains a significant challenge. One feasible approach is to hierarchically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yizhe Huang , Anji Liu , Fanqi Kong , Yaodong Yang , Song-Chun Zhu , Xue Feng

Being one of the most promising applications enabled by connected and automated vehicles (CAV) technology, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is expected to be deployed in the near term on public roads.} Thus far, the majority of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Zijia Zhong , Earl E. Lee , Mark Nejad , Joyoung Lee

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

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

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is an NP-hard problem well studied in artificial intelligence and robotics. It has many real-world applications for which existing MAPF solvers use various heuristics. However, these solvers are deterministic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Liron Cohen , Glenn Wagner , T. K. Satish Kumar , Howie Choset , Sven Koenig

Constraint Optimization Problems (COP) pose intricate challenges in combinatorial problems usually addressed through Branch and Bound (B\&B) methods, which involve maintaining priority queues and iteratively selecting branches to search for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yingkai Xiao , Jingjin Liu , Hankz Hankui Zhuo

Circuit discovery, which involves identifying sparse and task-relevant subnetworks in pre-trained language models, is a cornerstone of mechanistic interpretability. Automated Circuit Discovery (ACDC) has emerged as a pivotal methodology in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinhai Wang , Shu Yang , Liangyu Wang , Lin Zhang , Huanyi Xie , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Many rescue missions demand effective perception and real-time decision making, which highly rely on effective data collection and processing. In this study, we propose a three-layer architecture of emergency caching networks focusing on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Zeyu Tian , Lianming Xu , Liang Li , Li Wang , Aiguo Fei

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding a set of collision-free paths, one for each agent in a shared environment. Its objective is to minimize the sum of path costs (SOC), where the path cost of each agent is defined as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shao-Hung Chan , Thomy Phan , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieved many breakthroughs in recent years. In spite of its remarkable progress, many algorithms are restricted to particular search spaces. They also lack efficient mechanisms to reuse knowledge when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xin Chen , Yawen Duan , Zewei Chen , Hang Xu , Zihao Chen , Xiaodan Liang , Tong Zhang , Zhenguo Li

We consider caching in cellular networks in which each base station is equipped with a cache that can store a limited number of files. The popularity of the files is known and the goal is to place files in the caches such that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Jasper Goseling , Berksan Serbetci

High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Minghao Lu , Xiyu Fan , Bowen Xu , Zexuan Yan , Rui Peng , Han Chen , Lixian Zhang , Peng Lu

Recent advancements in visual object tracking have markedly improved the capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking, which is a critical component in real-world robotics applications. While the integration of hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Weihong Li , Xiaoqiong Liu , Heng Fan , Libo Zhang

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for multiple agents such that they do not collide. This problem manifests in numerous real-world applications such as controlling transportation robots in automated warehouses,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Carmel Shabalin , Omri Kaduri , Roni Stern

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

Connectivity in ground vehicles allows vehicles to share crucial vehicle data, such as vehicle acceleration, with each other. Using sensors such as cameras, radars and lidars, on the other hand, the intravehicular distance between a leader…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Ozgenur Kavas-Torris , Levent Guvenc