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In post-disaster scenarios, efficient search and rescue operations involve collaborative efforts between robots and humans. Existing planning approaches focus on specific aspects but overlook crucial elements like information gathering,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hamid Osooli , Paul Robinette , Kshitij Jerath , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the path planning of logistics vehicles has become increasingly complex, requiring consideration of multiple constraints such as time windows, task sequencing, and motion smoothness.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Haopeng Zhao , Zhichao Ma , Lipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Zheyu Zhang , Hao Liu

This paper develops a stochastic programming framework for multi-agent systems where task decomposition, assignment, and scheduling problems are simultaneously optimized. The framework can be applied to heterogeneous mobile robot teams with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bo Fu , William Smith , Denise Rizzo , Matthew Castanier , Maani Ghaffari , Kira Barton

Robotic assembly planning enables architects to explicitly account for the assembly process during the design phase, and enables efficient building methods that profit from the robots' different capabilities. Previous work has addressed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Valentin Noah Hartmann , Andreas Orthey , Danny Driess , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint

This study explores the problem of Multi-Agent Path Finding with continuous and stochastic travel times whose probability distribution is unknown. Our purpose is to manage a group of automated robots that provide package delivery services…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Atsuyoshi Kita , Nobuhiro Suenari , Masashi Okada , Tadahiro Taniguchi

In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Naman Shah , Deepak Kala Vasudevan , Kislay Kumar , Pranav Kamojjhala , Siddharth Srivastava

Path Planning and target searching in a three-dimensional environment is a challenging task in the field of robotics. It is an optimization problem as the path from source to destination has to be optimal. This paper aims to generate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Devansh Verma , Priyansh Saxena , Ritu Tiwari

Cooperative pathfinding is a problem of finding a set of non-conflicting trajectories for a number of mobile agents. Its applications include planning for teams of mobile robots, such as autonomous aircrafts, cars, or underwater vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Jiří Vokřínek , Michal Pěchouček

In this paper we present a method for automatically planning optimal paths for a group of robots that satisfy a common high level mission specification. Each robot's motion in the environment is modeled as a weighted transition system. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alphan Ulusoy , Stephen L. Smith , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

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

Humanoid robots offer significant advantages for search and rescue tasks, thanks to their capability to traverse rough terrains and perform transportation tasks. In this study, we present a task and motion planning framework for search and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Abdulaziz Shamsah , Jesse Jiang , Ziwon Yoon , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

This paper considers centralized mission-planning for a heterogeneous multi-agent system with the aim of locating a hidden target. We propose a mixed observable setting, consisting of a fully observable state-space and a partially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Kasper Johansson , Ugo Rosolia , Wyatt Ubellacker , Andrew Singletary , Aaron D. Ames

Multi-robot systems can greatly enhance efficiency through coordination and collaboration, yet in practice, full-time communication is rarely available and interactions are constrained to close-range exchanges. Existing methods either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xintong Zhang , Junfeng Chen , Yuxiao Zhu , Bing Luo , Meng Guo

We want a multi-robot team to complete complex tasks in minimum time where the locations of task-relevant objects are not known. Effective task completion requires reasoning over long horizons about the likely locations of task-relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Abhish Khanal , Abhishek Paudel , Hung Pham , Gregory J. Stein

In this work, we address the cooperation problem among large language model (LLM) based embodied agents, where agents must cooperate to achieve a common goal. Previous methods often execute actions extemporaneously and incoherently, without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jie Liu , Pan Zhou , Yingjun Du , Ah-Hwee Tan , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

This paper studies heterogeneous multi-team collaboration through dynamic robot allocation, where robots are treated as transferable resources. Leveraging Hamilton's rule from ecology as an altruistic decision-making mechanism, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Riwa Karam , Ruoyu Lin , Brooks A. Butler , Magnus Egerstedt

We propose integrating the edge-computing paradigm into the multi-robot collaborative scheduling to maximize resource utilization for complex collaborative tasks, which many robots must perform together. Examples include collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Nazish Tahir , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) is a variant of the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm, specifically tailored for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). MAPPO optimizes cooperative multi-agent settings by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changha Lee , Gyusang Cho

The hunter and gatherer approach copes with the problem of dynamic multi-robot task allocation, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This approach employs two complementary teams of agents: one agile in exploring…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mehdi Dadvar , Saeed Moazami , Harley R. Myler , Hassan Zargarzadeh

Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular method to compute a trajectory in real-time. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu M. Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora