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Main Authors: Fronda, Nicole, Hoxha, Bardh, Abbas, Houssam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14381
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author Fronda, Nicole
Hoxha, Bardh
Abbas, Houssam
author_facet Fronda, Nicole
Hoxha, Bardh
Abbas, Houssam
contents We propose injecting notions of fairness into multi-robot motion planning. When robots have competing interests, it is important to optimize for some kind of fairness in their usage of resources. In this work, we explore how the robots' energy expenditures might be fairly distributed among them, while maintaining mission success. We formulate a distributed fair motion planner and integrate it with safe controllers in a algorithm called FiReFly. For simulated reach-avoid missions, FiReFly produces fairer trajectories and improves mission success rates over a non-fair planner. We find that real-time performance is achievable up to 15 UAVs, and that scaling up to 50 UAVs is possible with trade-offs between runtime and fairness improvements.
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spellingShingle FiReFly: Fair Distributed Receding Horizon Planning for Multiple UAVs
Fronda, Nicole
Hoxha, Bardh
Abbas, Houssam
Robotics
We propose injecting notions of fairness into multi-robot motion planning. When robots have competing interests, it is important to optimize for some kind of fairness in their usage of resources. In this work, we explore how the robots' energy expenditures might be fairly distributed among them, while maintaining mission success. We formulate a distributed fair motion planner and integrate it with safe controllers in a algorithm called FiReFly. For simulated reach-avoid missions, FiReFly produces fairer trajectories and improves mission success rates over a non-fair planner. We find that real-time performance is achievable up to 15 UAVs, and that scaling up to 50 UAVs is possible with trade-offs between runtime and fairness improvements.
title FiReFly: Fair Distributed Receding Horizon Planning for Multiple UAVs
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14381