[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

Learning selective communication for multi-agent path finding

Z Ma, Y Luo, J Pan - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning communication via deep reinforcement learning (RL) or imitation learning (IL) has
recently been shown to be an effective way to solve Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) …

New techniques for pairwise symmetry breaking in multi-agent path finding

J Li, G Gange, D Harabor, PJ Stuckey, H Ma… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aaai.org
We consider two new classes of pairwise path symmetries which appear in the context of
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). The first of them, corridor symmetry, arises when two …

Anytime multi-agent path finding via machine learning-guided large neighborhood search

T Huang, J Li, S Koenig, B Dilkina - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of finding a set of collision-free
paths for a team of agents in a common environment. MAPF is NP-hard to solve optimally …

SACHA: Soft actor-critic with heuristic-based attention for partially observable multi-agent path finding

Q Lin, H Ma - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a crucial component for many large-scale robotic
systems, where agents must plan their collision-free paths to their given goal positions …

Symmetry-breaking constraints for grid-based multi-agent path finding

J Li, D Harabor, PJ Stuckey, H Ma, S Koenig - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
We describe a new way of reasoning about symmetric collisions for Multi-Agent Path Finding
(MAPF) on 4-neighbor grids. We also introduce a symmetry-breaking constraint to resolve …