Constrained Multi-Agent Path Finding on Directed Graphs

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Main Authors: Ardizzoni, Stefano, Consolini, Luca, Locatelli, Marco, Saccani, Irene
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Published: 2022
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author Ardizzoni, Stefano
Consolini, Luca
Locatelli, Marco
Saccani, Irene
author_facet Ardizzoni, Stefano
Consolini, Luca
Locatelli, Marco
Saccani, Irene
contents We discuss C-MP and C-MAPF, generalizations of the classical Motion Planning (MP) and Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problems on a directed graph G. Namely, we enforce an upper bound on the number of agents that occupy each member of a family of vertex subsets. For instance, this constraint allows maintaining a safety distance between agents. We prove that finding a feasible solution of C-MP and C-MAPF is NP-hard, and we propose a reduction method to convert them to standard MP and MAPF. This reduction method consists in finding a subset of nodes W and a reduced graph G/W, such that a solution of MAPF on G/W provides a solution of C-MAPF on G. Moreover, we study the problem of finding W of maximum cardinality, which is strongly NP-hard.
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spellingShingle Constrained Multi-Agent Path Finding on Directed Graphs
Ardizzoni, Stefano
Consolini, Luca
Locatelli, Marco
Saccani, Irene
Multiagent Systems
We discuss C-MP and C-MAPF, generalizations of the classical Motion Planning (MP) and Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problems on a directed graph G. Namely, we enforce an upper bound on the number of agents that occupy each member of a family of vertex subsets. For instance, this constraint allows maintaining a safety distance between agents. We prove that finding a feasible solution of C-MP and C-MAPF is NP-hard, and we propose a reduction method to convert them to standard MP and MAPF. This reduction method consists in finding a subset of nodes W and a reduced graph G/W, such that a solution of MAPF on G/W provides a solution of C-MAPF on G. Moreover, we study the problem of finding W of maximum cardinality, which is strongly NP-hard.
title Constrained Multi-Agent Path Finding on Directed Graphs
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12506