A MILP-Based Solution to Multi-Agent Motion Planning and Collision Avoidance in Constrained Environments

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Main Authors: Jaitly, Akshay, Cline, Jack, Farzan, Siavash
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author Jaitly, Akshay
Cline, Jack
Farzan, Siavash
author_facet Jaitly, Akshay
Cline, Jack
Farzan, Siavash
contents We propose a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for multi-agent motion planning that embeds Polytopic Action-based Motion Planning (PAAMP) into a sequence-then-solve pipeline. Region sequences confine each agent to adjacent convex polytopes, while a big-M hyperplane model enforces inter-agent separation. Collision constraints are applied only to agents sharing or neighboring a region, which reduces binary variables exponentially compared with naive formulations. An L1 path-length-plus-acceleration cost yields smooth trajectories. We prove finite-time convergence and demonstrate on representative multi-agent scenarios with obstacles that our formulation produces collision-free trajectories an order of magnitude faster than an unstructured MILP baseline.
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spellingShingle A MILP-Based Solution to Multi-Agent Motion Planning and Collision Avoidance in Constrained Environments
Jaitly, Akshay
Cline, Jack
Farzan, Siavash
Robotics
Systems and Control
We propose a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) for multi-agent motion planning that embeds Polytopic Action-based Motion Planning (PAAMP) into a sequence-then-solve pipeline. Region sequences confine each agent to adjacent convex polytopes, while a big-M hyperplane model enforces inter-agent separation. Collision constraints are applied only to agents sharing or neighboring a region, which reduces binary variables exponentially compared with naive formulations. An L1 path-length-plus-acceleration cost yields smooth trajectories. We prove finite-time convergence and demonstrate on representative multi-agent scenarios with obstacles that our formulation produces collision-free trajectories an order of magnitude faster than an unstructured MILP baseline.
title A MILP-Based Solution to Multi-Agent Motion Planning and Collision Avoidance in Constrained Environments
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21982