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 …

Graph-based multi-robot path finding and planning

H Ma - Current Robotics Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Planning collision-free paths for multiple robots is important for
real-world multi-robot systems and has been studied as an optimization problem on graphs …

Lifelong multi-agent path finding in large-scale warehouses

J Li, A Tinka, S Kiesel, JW Durham… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of moving a team of agents to their
goal locations without collisions. In this paper, we study the lifelong variant of MAPF, where …

Optimal multirobot path planning on graphs: Complete algorithms and effective heuristics

J Yu, SM LaValle - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study optimal multirobot path planning on graphs (MPP) over four minimization
objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance …

Lifelong multi-agent path finding for online pickup and delivery tasks

H Ma, J Li, TK Kumar, S Koenig - arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10868, 2017 - arxiv.org
The multi-agent path-finding (MAPF) problem has recently received a lot of attention.
However, it does not capture important characteristics of many real-world domains, such as …

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 …

Multi-agent path finding with kinematic constraints

W Hönig, TK Kumar, L Cohen, H Ma, H Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is well studied in both AI and robotics. Given a
discretized environment and agents with assigned start and goal locations, MAPF solvers …

Planning optimal paths for multiple robots on graphs

J Yu, SM LaValle - 2013 IEEE International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning (MPP) on graphs.
We propose two multiflow based integer linear programming (ILP) models that compute …

Persistent and robust execution of MAPF schedules in warehouses

W Hönig, S Kiesel, A Tinka, JW Durham… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a well-studied problem in artificial intelligence that can be
solved quickly in practice when using simplified agent assumptions. However, real-world …

[HTML][HTML] Priority inheritance with backtracking for iterative multi-agent path finding

K Okumura, M Machida, X Défago, Y Tamura - Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem, a set of agents moving on a graph
must reach their own respective destinations without inter-agent collisions. In practical MAPF …