Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Elevators
arXiv:2602.20512v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates a problem called Multi-Agent Path Finding with Elevators (MAPF-E), which seeks conflict-free paths for multiple agents from their start to goal locations that may locate on different floors, and the agents can use elevators to travel between floors. The existence of elevators complicates the interaction among the agents and introduces new challenges to the planning. On the one hand, elevators can cause many conflicts am
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arXiv:2602.20512v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates a problem called Multi-Agent Path Finding with Elevators (MAPF-E), which seeks conflict-free paths for multiple agents from their start to goal locations that may locate on different floors, and the agents can use elevators to travel between floors. The existence of elevators complicates the interaction among the agents and introduces new challenges to the planning. On the one hand, elevators can cause many conflicts among the agents due to its relatively long traversal time across floors, especially when many agents need to reach a different floor. On the other hand, the planner has to reason in a larger state space including the states of the elevators, besides the locations of the agents.
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Originally published at arxiv.org.
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20512
