Multi-Robot Coordination

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Multi-robot coordination studies how robots with shared or complementary goals work together in settings such as exploration, transport, warehouses, and aerial-ground missions. Approaches include task allocation and scheduling, joint or distributed motion planning, formation and feedback control, and learned policies that use local observations, communication, or demonstrations. Work increasingly combines these methods with safety constraints, uncertainty-aware replanning, and language or vision models, with evaluation spanning simulation, benchmarks, and physical robot teams. A central challenge is balancing the efficiency and global awareness of centralized planning against the scalability, resilience, and limited communication of decentralized teams, especially when robots or environments differ from those seen in training.

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  1. The Multi-AMR Buffer Storage, Retrieval, and Reshuffling Problem: Exact and Heuristic Approaches

    Mar 27, 2026Max Disselnmeyer, Thomas Bömer, Laura Dörr +2Industrial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Zirkel 2, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

  2. Line-of-Sight-Constrained Multi-Robot Mapless Navigation via Polygonal Visible Regions

    Mar 27, 2026Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Xinhang Xu +5Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Coordination

  3. UMBRELLA: Uncertainty-aware Multi-robot Reactive Coordination under Dynamic Temporal Logic Tasks

    Mar 26, 2026Qisheng Zhao, Meng Guo, Hengxuan Du +2Risk-Sensitive PlanningMulti-Robot Coordination

    School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8092, Switzerland

  4. Decentralized End-to-End Multi-AAV Pursuit Using Predictive Spatio-Temporal Observation via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Mar 25, 2026Yude Li, Zhexuan Zhou, Huizhe Li +6Multi-Agent SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    The authors are with the School of Intelligence Science and Engineering, the Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Morphing Mechanisms and Adaptive Robotics, and the Shenzhen Key Lab for Advanced Motion Control and Modern Automation Equipments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

  5. Robust Distributed Cooperative Path-Following and Local Replanning for Multi-UAVs Under Differentiated Low-Altitude Paths

    Mar 25, 2026Zimao Sheng, Zirui Yu, Hong'an YangDistributed ControlUAV Navigation

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

  6. Wireless communication empowers online scheduling of partially-observable transportation multi-robot systems in a smart factory

    Mar 25, 2026Yaxin Liao, Qimei Cui, Kwang-Cheng Chen +5Smart ManufacturingMulti-Robot Coordination

    National Engineering Research Center of Mobile Network Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 USA · School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  7. ROSCell: A ROS2-Based Framework for Automated Formation and Orchestration of Multi-Robot Systems

    Mar 24, 2026Jiangtao Shuai, Marvin Carl May, Sonja Schimmler +1Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics

    Technical University of Berlin, Germany · School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

  8. AirSimAG: A High-Fidelity Simulation Platform for Air-Ground Collaborative Robotics

    Mar 24, 2026Yangjie Cui, Xin Dong, Boyang Gao +3Robotics SimulationRobotics

    School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China · Institution of Unmanned System, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  9. Energy-Aware Collaborative Exploration for a UAV-UGV Team

    Mar 23, 2026Cahit Ikbal Er, Saikiran Juttu, Yasin YaziciogluMulti-Robot ExplorationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

  10. Can a Robot Walk the Robotic Dog: Triple-Zero Collaborative Navigation for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

    Mar 23, 2026Yaxuan Wang, Yifan Xiang, Ke Li +5Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Systems

    Yuanpei College, Peking University · School of Computer Science, Peking University · School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +2

  11. Architecture for Multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles based Autonomous Precision Agriculture Systems

    Mar 22, 2026Ebasa Temesgen, Nathnael Minyelshowa, Lebsework NegashPrecision AgricultureAgricultural Robotics

    University of Minnesota · Addis Ababa Institute of Technology (AAiT)

  12. Does Peer Observation Help? Vision-Sharing Collaboration for Vision-Language Navigation

    Mar 21, 2026Qunchao Jin, Yiliao Song, Qi WuVision-Language NavigationMulti-Robot Coordination

    Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · Responsible AI Research Centre, Australian Institute for Machine Learning

  13. LASER: Level-Based Asynchronous Scheduling and Execution Regime for Spatiotemporally Constrained Multi-Robot Timber Manufacturing

    Mar 21, 2026Zhenxiang Huang, Lior Skoury, Tim Stark +4Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at University of Stuttgart, Germany.

  14. Multi-Robot Learning-Informed Task Planning Under Uncertainty

    Mar 20, 2026Abhish Khanal, Abhishek Paudel, Hung Pham +1Multi-Robot CoordinationDecision-Making under Uncertainty

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA.

  15. IndoorR2X: Indoor Robot-to-Everything Coordination with LLM-Driven Planning

    Mar 20, 2026Fan Yang, Soumya Teotia, Shaunak A. Mehta +8World Models for RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    1Fujitsu Research · 2Carnegie Mellon University

  16. ADMM-Based Distributed MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Safe Multi-Robot Quadrupedal Locomotion

    Mar 19, 2026Yicheng Zeng, Ruturaj S. Sambhus, Basit Muhammad Imran +3Model Predictive ControlMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA · The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA

  17. CAMO: A Conditional Neural Solver for the Multi-objective Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem

    Mar 19, 2026Fengxiaoxiao Li, Xiao Mao, Mingfeng Fan +4Neural Combinatorial OptimizationMulti-Objective Optimization

    National University of Singapore, Singapore. · China Unicom Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen, China. · Central South University, Changsha, China.

  18. Graph-of-Constraints Model Predictive Control for Reactive Multi-agent Task and Motion Planning

    Mar 19, 2026Anastasios Manganaris, Jeremy Lu, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1Multi-Agent PlanningConstrained Motion Planning

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, 47907.

  19. Manufacturing Micro-Patterned Surfaces with Multi-Robot Systems

    Mar 18, 2026Annalisa T. Taylor, Malachi Landis, Ping Guo +1Ergodic ControlRobotics

    Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University

  20. Huddle: Parallel Shape Assembly using Decentralized, Minimalistic Robots

    Mar 18, 2026Khai Yi Chin, Tingwei Meng, Zhe Chen +2Robotic AssemblyMulti-Robot Formation Control

    Amazon Robotics

  21. Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications

    Mar 18, 2026Anil Zaher, Kiril Solovey, Alejandro CohenMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

  22. Routing and Control for Marine Oil-Spill Cleanup with a Boom-Towing Vessel Fleet

    Mar 17, 2026Snir Carmeli, Adir Morgan, Kiril SoloveyDisaster ResponseMulti-Robot Coordination

    The authors are with the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

  23. The Geometry of Transmission Zeros in Distance-Based Formations

    Mar 16, 2026Solomon Goldgraber Casspi, Daniel ZelazoMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Coordination

    Both authors are with the Stephen B. Klein Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 320003, Israel

  24. BodyGuards: Escorting by Multiple Robots in Unknown Environment under Limited Communication

    Mar 16, 2026Zhuoli Tian, Yanze Bao, Meng GuoResilient Multi-Robot CoordinationHuman-Robot Collaboration

  25. Multi-robot Graph Traversal with Support Coordination under Stochastically Moving Adversaries

    Mar 16, 2026Manshi Limbu, Xuan Wang, Gregory J. Stein +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningRisk-Aware Path Planning

    George Mason University

  26. Multi-Robot Coordination for Planning under Context Uncertainty

    Mar 14, 2026Pulkit Rustagi, Kyle Hollins Wray, Sandhya SaisubramanianMulti-Robot Motion PlanningMulti-Robot Coordination

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA · Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  27. Hybrid topology control: a dynamic leader-based distributed edge-addition and deletion mechanism

    Mar 13, 2026Kunal Garg, Xi YuMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    School of Engineering for Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University · School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University

  28. GoalSwarm: Multi-UAV Semantic Coordination for Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation

    Mar 13, 2026MoniJesu Wonders James, Amir Atef Habel, Aleksey Fedoseev +1UAV NavigationObject-Goal Navigation

    The authors are with the Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.

  29. Multi-Robot Multitask Gaussian Process Estimation and Coverage

    Mar 11, 2026Lai Wei, Andrew McDonald, Vaibhav SrivastavaMulti-Robot Coordination

    Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823 USA.

  30. A Generalized Voronoi Graph based Coverage Control Approach for Non-Convex Environment

    Mar 10, 2026Zuyi Guo, Ronghao Zheng, Meiqin Liu +1Multi-Robot CoordinationMulti-Robot Task Allocation

    the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China, and also with the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China, and also with the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China