[PDF][PDF] Research challenges and opportunities in multi-agent path finding and multi-agent pickup and delivery problems

O Salzman, R Stern - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference …, 2020 - ifaamas.org
Recent years have shown a large increase in applications and research of problems that
include moving a fleet of physical robots. One particular application that is currently a multi …

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 …

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 …

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 pathfinding with continuous time

A Andreychuk, K Yakovlev, P Surynek, D Atzmon… - Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is the problem of finding paths for multiple agents
such that each agent reaches its goal and the agents do not collide. In recent years, variants …

Pairwise symmetry reasoning for multi-agent path finding search

J Li, D Harabor, PJ Stuckey, H Ma, G Gange… - Artificial Intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a challenging combinatorial problem that asks
us to plan collision-free paths for a team of cooperative agents. In this work, we show that …

Branch-and-cut-and-price for multi-agent path finding

E Lam, P Le Bodic, D Harabor, PJ Stuckey - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Agent Path Finding problem aims to find a set of collision-free paths that
minimizes the total cost of all paths. The problem is extensively studied in artificial …

[PDF][PDF] Improved Heuristics for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Conflict-Based Search.

J Li, A Felner, E Boyarski, H Ma, S Koenig - IJCAI, 2019 - ijcai.org
Abstract Conflict-Based Search (CBS) and its enhancements are among the strongest
algorithms for Multi-Agent Path Finding. Recent work introduced an admissible heuristic to …

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 …

Distributed heuristic multi-agent path finding with communication

Z Ma, Y Luo, H Ma - 2021 IEEE International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent
methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially …