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 …

On the computational complexity of multi-agent pathfinding on directed graphs

B Nebel - Proceedings of the International Conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
The determination of the computational complexity of multi-agent pathfinding on directed
graphs has been an open problem for many years. For undirected graphs, solvability can be …

Multi-robot motion planning with dynamics via coordinated sampling-based expansion guided by multi-agent search

D Le, E Plaku - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter combines sampling-based motion planning with multi-agent search to efficiently
solve challenging multi-robot motion-planning problems with dynamics. This idea has …

Implicitly coordinated multi-agent path finding under destination uncertainty: Success guarantees and computational complexity

B Nebel, T Bolander, T Engesser… - Journal of Artificial …, 2019 - jair.org
In multi-agent path finding (MAPF), it is usually assumed that planning is performed centrally
and that the destinations of the agents are common knowledge. We will drop both …

Path planning for robotic mobile fulfillment systems

M Merschformann, L Xie, D Erdmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09347, 2017 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a collection of path planning algorithms for real-time movement of
multiple robots across a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS). Robots are assigned to …

Multi-Agent Path Finding with heterogeneous edges and roundtrips

B Ai, J Jiang, S Yu, Y Jiang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to find a set of conflict-free paths for multiple
agents on a given graph from parking locations to specified goal locations while optimizing …

An algorithm with improved complexity for pebble motion/multi-agent path finding on trees

S Ardizzoni, I Saccani, L Consolini, M Locatelli… - Journal of Artificial …, 2024 - jair.org
The pebble motion on trees (PMT) problem consists in finding a feasible sequence of moves
that repositions a set of pebbles to assigned target vertices. This problem has been widely …

Cooperative, dynamics-based, and abstraction-guided multi-robot motion planning

D Le, E Plaku - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper presents an effective, cooperative, and probabilistically-complete multirobot
motion planner that enables each robot to move to a desired location while avoiding …

Dmapp: A distributed multi-agent path planning algorithm

SS Chouhan, R Niyogi - AI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 28th …, 2015 - Springer
Multi-agent path planning is a very challenging problem that has several applications. It has
received a lot of attention in the last decade. Multi-agent optimal path planning is …

Solving multi-agent path finding on strongly biconnected digraphs

A Botea, D Bonusi, P Surynek - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
Much of the literature on suboptimal, polynomial-time algorithms for multi-agent path finding
focuses on undirected graphs, where motion is permitted in both directions along a graph …