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Multi-Robot Control via Waypoint-Based Bi-Level Planning

other · 2026-04-25

A research paper proposes a hybrid framework for multi-robot control in cluttered environments, jointly optimizing high-level task planning and low-level motion planning. The method introduces waypoints as a simple yet expressive representation for motion trajectories to enable effective parameterization of low-level planning. To address credit assignment ambiguity between planning levels, a curriculum-based training approach is adopted. The work targets challenges such as robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions, which require joint optimization across both planning levels. The paper is available on arXiv under ID 2604.21138.

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  • arXiv ID: 2604.21138
  • Paper proposes hybrid multi-robot control framework
  • Jointly optimizes task and motion planning
  • Introduces waypoints for motion trajectory representation
  • Uses curriculum-based training for credit assignment
  • Addresses robot-robot and robot-obstacle collisions
  • Focuses on cluttered environments
  • Published on arXiv

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