5 accepted papers
Automation in underground mining has the potential to significantly enhance safety, operational efficiency, and sustainability. However, effectively coordinating fleets of autonomous vehicles in dynamic mine environments introduces substantial challenges in both optimization and motion planning. To …
Modern automated factories increasingly run manufacturing procedures using a matrix of programmable machines, such as 3D printers, interconnected by a programmable transport system, such as a fleet of tabletop robots. To embed a manufacturing procedure into a smart factory, an operator must: (a) ass
A modern smart factory runs a manufacturing procedure using a collection of programmable machines. Typically, materials are ferried between these machines using a team of mobile robots. To embed a manufacturing procedure in a smart factory, a factory operator must a) assign its processes to the smar
We address the Warehouse Servicing Problem (WSP) in automated warehouses, which use teams of mobile robots to move products from shelves to packaging stations. Given a list of products, the WSP amounts to finding a motion plan which brings every product on the list from a shelf to a packaging statio…
Modern multi-agent robotic systems increasingly require scalable, robust and persistent Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) with performance guarantees. While many MAPF solvers that provide some of these properties exist, none provides them all. To fill this need, we propose a new MAPF framework, the sh…