Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Precomputed Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles

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Main Authors: Gupta, Himanshu, Motter, Paul, Chakrabarty, Aritra, Sodani, Rishabh, Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore, Roncone, Alessandro, Hayes, Bradley, Sunberg, Zachary
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author Gupta, Himanshu
Motter, Paul
Chakrabarty, Aritra
Sodani, Rishabh
Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore
Roncone, Alessandro
Hayes, Bradley
Sunberg, Zachary
author_facet Gupta, Himanshu
Motter, Paul
Chakrabarty, Aritra
Sodani, Rishabh
Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore
Roncone, Alessandro
Hayes, Bradley
Sunberg, Zachary
contents Solving multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) requires generating collision-free kinodynamically feasible trajectories for multiple interacting robots. We introduce Kinodynamic Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles or KiTE-Extend, a planner-agnostic action selection mechanism for sampling-based kinodynamic motion planning. KiTE-Extend uses a library of trajectory segments computed offline to guide action selection during online planning, improving the ability of existing planners to identify feasible motion segments without altering state propagation, collision checking, or cost evaluation, and without changing their theoretical guarantees. While KiTE-Extend can modestly improve single-agent planners, its benefits are most clear in the multi-agent setting, where it is able to explore more effectively and significantly improve planning through the dense spatiotemporal constraints introduced by robot-robot interaction. Through experiments on multiple kinodynamic systems and environments, we show that KiTE-Extend reduces planning time and improves scalability across the three most common MRMP paradigms: centralized, prioritized, and conflict-based.
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spellingShingle Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Precomputed Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles
Gupta, Himanshu
Motter, Paul
Chakrabarty, Aritra
Sodani, Rishabh
Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore
Roncone, Alessandro
Hayes, Bradley
Sunberg, Zachary
Robotics
Solving multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) requires generating collision-free kinodynamically feasible trajectories for multiple interacting robots. We introduce Kinodynamic Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles or KiTE-Extend, a planner-agnostic action selection mechanism for sampling-based kinodynamic motion planning. KiTE-Extend uses a library of trajectory segments computed offline to guide action selection during online planning, improving the ability of existing planners to identify feasible motion segments without altering state propagation, collision checking, or cost evaluation, and without changing their theoretical guarantees. While KiTE-Extend can modestly improve single-agent planners, its benefits are most clear in the multi-agent setting, where it is able to explore more effectively and significantly improve planning through the dense spatiotemporal constraints introduced by robot-robot interaction. Through experiments on multiple kinodynamic systems and environments, we show that KiTE-Extend reduces planning time and improves scalability across the three most common MRMP paradigms: centralized, prioritized, and conflict-based.
title Efficient Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Precomputed Translation-Invariant Edge Bundles
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09801