K-ARC: Adaptive Robot Coordination for Multi-Robot Kinodynamic Planning

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Autores principales: Qin, Mike, Solis, Irving, Motes, James, Morales, Marco, Amato, Nancy M.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Qin, Mike
Solis, Irving
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
author_facet Qin, Mike
Solis, Irving
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
contents This work presents Kinodynamic Adaptive Robot Coordination (K-ARC), a novel algorithm for multi-robot kinodynamic planning. Our experimental results show the capability of K-ARC to plan for up to 32 planar mobile robots, while achieving up to an order of magnitude of speed-up compared to previous methods in various scenarios. K-ARC is able to achieve this due to its two main properties. First, K-ARC constructs its solution iteratively by planning in segments, where initial kinodynamic paths are found through optimization-based approaches and the inter-robot conflicts are resolved through sampling-based approaches. The interleaving use of sampling-based and optimization-based approaches allows K-ARC to leverage the strengths of both approaches in different sections of the planning process where one is more suited than the other, while previous methods tend to emphasize on one over the other. Second, K-ARC builds on a previously proposed multi-robot motion planning framework, Adaptive Robot Coordination (ARC), and inherits its strength of focusing on coordination between robots only when needed, saving computation efforts. We show how the combination of these two properties allows K-ARC to achieve overall better performance in our simulated experiments with increasing numbers of robots, increasing degrees of problem difficulties, and increasing complexities of robot dynamics.
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spellingShingle K-ARC: Adaptive Robot Coordination for Multi-Robot Kinodynamic Planning
Qin, Mike
Solis, Irving
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
Robotics
Multiagent Systems
This work presents Kinodynamic Adaptive Robot Coordination (K-ARC), a novel algorithm for multi-robot kinodynamic planning. Our experimental results show the capability of K-ARC to plan for up to 32 planar mobile robots, while achieving up to an order of magnitude of speed-up compared to previous methods in various scenarios. K-ARC is able to achieve this due to its two main properties. First, K-ARC constructs its solution iteratively by planning in segments, where initial kinodynamic paths are found through optimization-based approaches and the inter-robot conflicts are resolved through sampling-based approaches. The interleaving use of sampling-based and optimization-based approaches allows K-ARC to leverage the strengths of both approaches in different sections of the planning process where one is more suited than the other, while previous methods tend to emphasize on one over the other. Second, K-ARC builds on a previously proposed multi-robot motion planning framework, Adaptive Robot Coordination (ARC), and inherits its strength of focusing on coordination between robots only when needed, saving computation efforts. We show how the combination of these two properties allows K-ARC to achieve overall better performance in our simulated experiments with increasing numbers of robots, increasing degrees of problem difficulties, and increasing complexities of robot dynamics.
title K-ARC: Adaptive Robot Coordination for Multi-Robot Kinodynamic Planning
topic Robotics
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01559