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The PRIMAL framework, which combines reinforcement and imitation learning, enables fully decentralized, reactive online path planning that scales to over 1000 agents in partially observable environments. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Develop a fully decentralized multi-agent pathfinding framework that enables real-time reactive planning and implicit coordination in partially observable environments.

March 6, 2019IEEE Robotics and Automation LettersOpen Access

PRIMAL: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning

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Develop a fully decentralized multi-agent pathfinding framework that enables real-time reactive planning and implicit coordination in partially observable environments.
Combined reinforcement learning with expert demonstration data via imitation learning alongside tailored reward shaping and environment sampling.
Trained decentralized policies capable of being cloned across arbitrary agent counts and world dimensions.
Evaluated navigation success in randomized simulated worlds with up to 1024 agents and validated policies in a hybrid factory mockup with real and simulated robots.
Generated reactive, decentralized policies that successfully coordinate online path execution under partial observability without centralized recomputation.
Maintained scalable pathfinding performance across diverse team sizes, successfully scaling up to 1024 agents in randomized benchmark environments.

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Algorithmic evaluation demonstrates decentralized multi-agent pathfinding scaling up to 1024 agents, indicating viable online planning for large-scale automated warehouses and robot swarms.

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Sartoretti et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0f197fa00258d2006c8e5d https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2019.2903261

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Algorithmic evaluation demonstrates decentralized multi-agent pathfinding scaling up to 1024 agents, indicating viable online planning for large-scale automated warehouses and robot swarms.

PRIMAL: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning

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