Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty

Motion planning of agents is one of the fundamental research problems in autonomous systems. An important aspect of motion planning is collision avoidance of the agents with other agents and obstacles that are present in the agent’s environment. Typically, the collision avoidance constrai...

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Main Authors: Haseeb Tahir, Mujahid N. Syed, Uthman Baroudi
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Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Uthman Baroudi
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description Motion planning of agents is one of the fundamental research problems in autonomous systems. An important aspect of motion planning is collision avoidance of the agents with other agents and obstacles that are present in the agent’s environment. Typically, the collision avoidance constraints are non-linear and non-convex. Thus, the mathematical formulation of motion planning of multiple agents, in the presence of other agents and obstacles, is NP-Hard. In this paper, a novel heuristic approach for motion planning in multi-agent dynamic environment is proposed. The approach is computationally cheap, and can be launched locally on each agent for the trajectory planning. The applicability of the proposed approach is illustrated by numerical examples considering uncertainty in the environment. Detailed discussions on the performance of the proposed approach are presented. Finally, the observations on the key characteristics of the proposed approach are summarized.
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spelling doaj-art-6bb07df42b9e4cc3a83fd0d1ea4a77342025-08-22T23:10:46ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-0183812382610.1109/ACCESS.2019.29627858944081Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under UncertaintyHaseeb Tahir0Mujahid N. Syed1Uthman Baroudi2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1507-5713Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaSystems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaComputer Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaMotion planning of agents is one of the fundamental research problems in autonomous systems. An important aspect of motion planning is collision avoidance of the agents with other agents and obstacles that are present in the agent’s environment. Typically, the collision avoidance constraints are non-linear and non-convex. Thus, the mathematical formulation of motion planning of multiple agents, in the presence of other agents and obstacles, is NP-Hard. In this paper, a novel heuristic approach for motion planning in multi-agent dynamic environment is proposed. The approach is computationally cheap, and can be launched locally on each agent for the trajectory planning. The applicability of the proposed approach is illustrated by numerical examples considering uncertainty in the environment. Detailed discussions on the performance of the proposed approach are presented. Finally, the observations on the key characteristics of the proposed approach are summarized.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8944081/Trajectory planningmulti-agentpath planningrobotic networkscollision avoidance
spellingShingle Haseeb Tahir
Mujahid N. Syed
Uthman Baroudi
Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
IEEE Access
Trajectory planning
multi-agent
path planning
robotic networks
collision avoidance
title Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
title_full Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
title_fullStr Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
title_full_unstemmed Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
title_short Heuristic Approach for Real-Time Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning Under Uncertainty
title_sort heuristic approach for real time multi agent trajectory planning under uncertainty
topic Trajectory planning
multi-agent
path planning
robotic networks
collision avoidance
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8944081/
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