10 research outputs found
Lifelong Path Planning with Kinematic Constraints for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
The Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) problem models applications where
a large number of agents attend to a stream of incoming pickup-and-delivery
tasks. Token Passing (TP) is a recent MAPD algorithm that is efficient and
effective. We make TP even more efficient and effective by using a novel
combinatorial search algorithm, called Safe Interval Path Planning with
Reservation Table (SIPPwRT), for single-agent path planning. SIPPwRT uses an
advanced data structure that allows for fast updates and lookups of the current
paths of all agents in an online setting. The resulting MAPD algorithm
TP-SIPPwRT takes kinematic constraints of real robots into account directly
during planning, computes continuous agent movements with given velocities that
work on non-holonomic robots rather than discrete agent movements with uniform
velocity, and is complete for well-formed MAPD instances. We demonstrate its
benefits for automated warehouses using both an agent simulator and a standard
robot simulator. For example, we demonstrate that it can compute paths for
hundreds of agents and thousands of tasks in seconds and is more efficient and
effective than existing MAPD algorithms that use a post-processing step to
adapt their paths to continuous agent movements with given velocities.Comment: AAAI 201
Searching with Consistent Prioritization for Multi-Agent Path Finding
We study prioritized planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). Existing
prioritized MAPF algorithms depend on rule-of-thumb heuristics and random
assignment to determine a fixed total priority ordering of all agents a priori.
We instead explore the space of all possible partial priority orderings as part
of a novel systematic and conflict-driven combinatorial search framework. In a
variety of empirical comparisons, we demonstrate state-of-the-art solution
qualities and success rates, often with similar runtimes to existing
algorithms. We also develop new theoretical results that explore the
limitations of prioritized planning, in terms of completeness and optimality,
for the first time.Comment: AAAI 201