Multi-Robot Systems

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The field studies how robot teams can divide work, coordinate motion, and combine information to accomplish tasks that are difficult for one robot alone. Common approaches include multi-agent path finding and task allocation for warehouses and exploration, distributed control and reinforcement learning for swarms, and cooperative localization and SLAM that fuse cameras, ranging, and inertial sensors. Researchers also design communication protocols, simulators, and operator interfaces to support heterogeneous robots while managing limited bandwidth, computation, and human attention. A central challenge is making coordination safe and reliable as teams grow, robots fail, environments change, and methods move from simulation to real hardware.

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205 papers30 papers in the last four weeks, up 76% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. MATE-BT: A Behavior-Tree-Based Framework for Hierarchically Decentralized Mission Autonomy in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

    Oct 26, 2026Sunbeen Lee, Hoseon Gi, Jik Hur +1Multi-Robot SystemsResilient Multi-Robot Coordination

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea Aerospace University, Goyang, Republic of Korea · Korea Aerospace Industries, Ltd., Sacheon, Republic of Korea

  2. Localization-Uncertainty-Aware UAV Swarm Search for GNSS-Denied Maritime Surveillance

    Oct 26, 2026Siyuan Yang, Junning Lyu, Xiaoyu He +2Swarm RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Professor Emeritus with King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom

  3. Enabling Motion-Induced WiFi-CSI Sensing in Multi-Robot Systems: A Simulation Framework

    Oct 25, 2026Brendan Dijkstra, Ninad Jadhav, Maurice Stoffijn +2Wi-Fi SensingWireless Localization

    University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands · Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

  4. Facultative Swarming: A Capability, Not a Category, for Multi-Robot Systems

    Oct 23, 2026Ning Zhou, Edmund R. HuntMulti-Robot SystemsSwarm Robotics

    School of Engineering Mathematics & Technology, University of Bristol, Ada Lovelace Building, Tankard’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TW, United Kingdom

  5. Dispersive Tree Agreements for Multi-Robot Coordination

    Oct 22, 2026Shashank A. Deshpande, Blake T. Edwards, Jonathan P. HowMulti-Robot CoordinationMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  6. Industrial ReMEmbR: Scaling Spatiotemporal Memory to Robot Fleets

    Oct 20, 2026Jad Yammine, Malek Wahidi, Abrar Anwar +3Robotic Spatial MemoryShared-Memory Multi-Agent Systems

    Idealworks · NVIDIA

  7. CoopUQ: Robust Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Uncertainty-Aware Cooperative Forecasting

    Oct 19, 2026Zehao Wang, Jianpeng Yao, Yuping Wang +9Social Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Systems

    Georgia Institute of Technology · University of California, Riverside · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor +3

  8. InstAgent: A Recursively Self-Improving Agent Operating System for Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration

    Oct 16, 2026Haoyang Luo, Junhao Qin, Jingyan Cao +7Agentic AI for RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. · InstAdapt, Shanghai, China.

  9. Task Structure and Scalability in Multi-Robot Authoring

    Oct 15, 2026Christian Marowski, Byung-Cheol MinMulti-Robot SystemsRobotics

    SMART Lab, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA

  10. A Minimum Exact Disjunctive Basis for Two-Robot Solvability Profiles

    Oct 13, 2026Tsukasa Ninomiya, Shota Naito, Naoki Kitamura +2Multi-Robot SystemsMobile Robotics

    Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

  11. Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Teleoperation Interface for Multi-Operator Multi-Robot Systems in Challenging Environments

    Oct 10, 2026Alperen Kenan, Juan José García Cárdenas, Adriana Tapus +2Robot TeleoperationMulti-Robot Systems

    Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom · Computer Science and System Engineering Department (U2IS), Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France · Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Kempten, Germany

  12. Who to Trust in Multi-Robot Systems: Joint Robot and Object Hypothesis Trust Inference via Neural-Symbolic Cross-Validation

    Oct 10, 2026Ruiyang Wang, Hao-Lun Hsu, Haocheng Meng +2Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent System Security

  13. Distributed Relative Localization for Homogeneous Multi-Robot Systems through UWB Ranging and Limited Communications

    Oct 8, 2026Zhiqiang Cao, Ran Liu, Billy Pik Lik Lau +2Relative Pose EstimationCooperative Localization

    Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372 · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  14. Distributed Relative Localization Based on Ultra-WideBand and LiDAR for Multi-robot with Limited Communication

    Oct 8, 2026Zhiqiang Cao, Ran Liu, Billy Pik Lik Lau +2Cooperative LocalizationMulti-Robot Systems

    Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372 · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  15. Evaluating the Transfer of Co-Evolved Communication from 2D to 3D Simulation

    Oct 7, 2026Fernando Montes-GonzalezMulti-Agent CommunicationTransfer Learning

    Instituto de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

  16. Embedded Evaluation of Task Admission Coalescing in Decentralized Multi-Robot Systems

    Oct 6, 2026James Lott, Vahraz HonaryMulti-Robot SystemsRobotics

    Shiley Marcos School of Engineering University of San Diego San Diego, United States of America

  17. No Need to Stop the Fleet: Localized Anomaly Isolation via Dead Zones in AGV Fleets

    Oct 6, 2026Natalia Ogorelysheva, Falk Howar, Jian-Jia ChenMulti-Robot SystemsSafe Robot Navigation

    TU Dortmund University Dortmund, Germany · Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST Dortmund, Germany · RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany

  18. Safe Multi-Robot Collaborative Transport Using Density Functions

    Oct 6, 2026Jagannath Prasad Sahoo, Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan, Umesh VaidyaMulti-Robot SystemsWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29630, USA

  19. CoRE: Learning Collaboration-Role Experts for Decentralized Collaborative Manipulation with One Policy

    Oct 6, 2026Yanan Zhou, Zhaoyan Qian, Zihao Li +3Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia. · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, China.

  20. Silicon Language: A Robot-Native Knowledge Exchange Framework for Heterogeneous Robots

    Oct 6, 2026Yi Liu, Xianglin Meng, Chang Chen +1Multi-Robot SystemsRobot Skill Learning

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · Yulin Saiyi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Yulin, China · Yulin Intelligent Unmanned Equipment Innovation Center Co., Ltd., Yulin, China

  21. MRPilot: Supervising and Intervening LLM-Based Multi-Robot Teams through Mixed Reality

    Oct 5, 2026Xiaoran Yang, Xun Qian, Yang Zhan +3Multi-Robot SystemsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA · Google San Jose, California, USA · Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

  22. Dynamics Modeling of a Multi-UAV Slung Load System Using a Discrete-Link Cable Approach

    Oct 5, 2026Harvey Merton, Ian W. HunterAerial RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    The authors are with the BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States of America

  23. A Taxonomy on Collective Awareness

    Oct 5, 2026Guillermo GP-Lenza, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Martín Molina +2Multi-Robot Systems

    Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, C. de los Ciruelos, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain. · Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group, Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR), Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid (UPM-CSIC), Calle Jos´e Guti´rrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006, Madrid, Spain. · Automation and Robotics Research Group (ARG), Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, L-1359, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. +1

  24. Safe Ergodic Control for Multi-Robot Systems via Quadratic Programming

    Oct 4, 2026Yo Toyomoto, Mohamed Elobaid, Bryce L. Ferguson +2Multi-Robot SystemsControl Barrier Functions

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia · Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA · Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

  25. Min-Max Uniform Circle Formation by Asynchronous Mobile Robots

    Oct 4, 2026Animesh Maiti, Prakhar Shukla, Subhash BhagatMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

  26. Distributed Cascade Force Control of Soft-Tactile-Based Multi-robot System for Object Transportation

    Oct 3, 2026Duy Anh Nguyen, Nhat Minh Dinh Le, Nhan Huu Nguyen +3Multi-Robot Cargo TransportationDistributed Control

    More-Than-One Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada · Soft Haptics Lab., School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Asahidai 1-1, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292 Japan. · University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam. +1

  27. DNPush: Distributed Nonparallel Pushing Force Control of Multi-Robot Systems for Object Transportation

    Oct 3, 2026Duy Anh Nguyen, Pham Duy Hung, Trung Dung NgoMulti-Robot Cargo TransportationRobotic Object Pushing

    More-Than-One Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada · Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, VNU University of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

  28. When Robots Crash: Optimal Asynchronous Gathering at Weber Meeting Nodes

    Oct 3, 2026Animesh Maiti, Prakhar Shukla, Abhinav Chakraborty +1Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India · Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

  29. Network-in-the-Loop at Scale: GPU-Batched 5G Simulation for Massively Parallel Robot Learning

    Oct 1, 2026Zifan Zhang, Mingzhe Han, Kannan Athreya +1Wireless CommunicationsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

  30. Solving Multi-Agent Sokoban via LaCAM

    Sep 30, 2026Keisuke OkumuraMulti-Robot SystemsMulti-Agent Planning

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan