Mixed Integer Programming for Time-Optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning with Heuristics

J Tang, H Ma - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate time-optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) for both
unweighted and weighted terrains, which aims to minimize the coverage time, defined as the …

Optimizing space utilization for more effective multi-robot path planning

SD Han, J Yu - 2022 International Conference on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We perform a systematic exploration of the principle of Space Utilization Optimization (SUO)
as a heuristic for planning better individual paths in a decoupled multi-robot path planner …

Polynomial time near-time-optimal multi-robot path planning in three dimensions with applications to large-scale uav coordination

T Guo, SW Feng, J Yu - 2022 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For enabling efficient, large-scale coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV s) under
the labeled setting, in this work, we develop the first polynomial time algorithm for the …

Efficient Heuristics for Multi-Robot Path Planning in Crowded Environments

T Guo, J Yu - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning (MRPP) has garnered significant attention due to its
many applications in domains including warehouse automation, transportation, and swarm …

Dual-layer multi-robot path planning in narrow-lane environments under specific traffic policies

J Huo, R Zheng, S Zhang, M Liu - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2022 - Springer
Collision-free path planning is indispensable for the multi-robot system. Many existing multi-
robot path planning algorithms may no longer work properly in the narrow-lane environment …

Expected 1. x Makespan-Optimal Multi-Agent Path Finding on Grid Graphs in Low Polynomial Time

T Guo, J Yu - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2024 - jair.org
Abstract Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is NP-hard to solve optimally, even on graphs,
suggesting no polynomial-time algorithms can compute exact optimal solutions for them …

Cglr: Dense multi-agent navigation using voronoi cells and congestion metric-based replanning

SH Arul, D Manocha - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a decentralized path-planning algorithm for navigating multiple differential-drive
robots in dense environments. In contrast to prior decentralized methods, we propose a …

Toward Universal and Scalable Road Graph Partitioning for Efficient Multi-Robot Path Planning

X Han, B Cao, Z Liu, S Zhou, H Zhang… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To date, multi-robot path planning has primarily been addressed by centralized solvers,
typically aiming to maintain optimality. However, given its NP-hard nature, directly applying …

Targeted Parallelization of Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Robot Path Planning

T Guo, J Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11768, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multi-Robot Path Planning (MRPP) on graphs, equivalently known as Multi-Agent Path
Finding (MAPF), is a well-established NP-hard problem with critically important applications …

Regional Constraint Module-Based Multi-Agent Path Planning Approach for Car-like Agents

C Fang, J Mao, D Li, N Wang, N Wang - Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong …, 2024 - Springer
Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a challenging problem widely employed in automated
docks and warehouse systems. However, when the above scenarios require car-like agents …