Search-based optimal solvers for the multi-agent pathfinding problem: Summary and challenges

A Felner, R Stern, S Shimony, E Boyarski… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is an area of expanding research interest. At the core of this
research area, numerous diverse search-based techniques were developed in the past 6 …

Suboptimal variants of the conflict-based search algorithm for the multi-agent pathfinding problem

M Barer, G Sharon, R Stern, A Felner - Proceedings of the international …, 2014 - ojs.aaai.org
The task in the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) is to find paths for multiple agents,
each with a different start and goal position, such that agents do not collide. A successful …

Meta-agent conflict-based search for optimal multi-agent path finding

G Sharon, R Stern, A Felner, N Sturtevant - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - ojs.aaai.org
The task in the multi-agent path finding problem (MAPF) isto find paths for multiple agents,
each with a different startand goal position, such that agents do not collide. It is possibleto …

Searching with consistent prioritization for multi-agent path finding

H Ma, D Harabor, PJ Stuckey, J Li, S Koenig - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
We study prioritized planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Existing prioritized MAPF
algorithms depend on rule-of-thumb heuristics and random assignment to determine a fixed …

A polynomial-time algorithm for non-optimal multi-agent pathfinding

M Khorshid, R Holte, N Sturtevant - Proceedings of the International …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
Multi-agent pathfinding, where multiple agents must travel to their goal locations without
getting stuck, has been studied in both theoretical and practical contexts, with a variety of …

Multi-agent pathfinding: Definitions, variants, and benchmarks

R Stern, N Sturtevant, A Felner, S Koenig… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
The multi-agent pathfinding problem (MAPF) is the fundamental problem of planning paths
for multiple agents, where the key constraint is that the agents will be able to follow these …

Multi-agent path finding for large agents

J Li, P Surynek, A Felner, H Ma, TKS Kumar… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has been widely studied in the AI community. For
example, Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a state-of-the-art MAPF algorithm based on a …

[HTML][HTML] Conflict-based search for optimal multi-agent pathfinding

G Sharon, R Stern, A Felner, NR Sturtevant - Artificial intelligence, 2015 - Elsevier
In the multi-agent pathfinding problem (MAPF) we are given a set of agents each with
respective start and goal positions. The task is to find paths for all agents while avoiding …

Multi-agent path finding–an overview

R Stern - Artificial Intelligence: 5th RAAI Summer School …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for multiple agents
such that every agent reaches its goal and the agents do not collide. In recent years, there …

Overview: Generalizations of multi-agent path finding to real-world scenarios

H Ma, S Koenig, N Ayanian, L Cohen, W Hönig… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is well-studied in artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical
computer science and operations research. We discuss issues that arise when generalizing …