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Streaming Multi-agent Pathfinding
July 2024 • Zhen Wang, Zhaoheng Cao, Juan Shi, Peican Zhu, Shuyue Hu, Chu Chen
The task of the multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem is to navigate a team of agents from their start point to the goal points. However, this setup is unsuitable in the assembly line scenario, which is periodic with a long working hour. To address this issue, the study formalizes the streaming MAPF (S-MAPF) problem, which assumes that the agents in the same agent stream have a periodic start time and share the same action sequence. The proposed solution, Agent Stream Conflict-Based Search (ASCBS), is designed to…