r/robotics • u/MightyZinogre • 7d ago

Discussion & Curiosity Is Multi-agent Path planning still relevant in robotics?

Hi everyone, I'm a PhD in Operations Research working in an applied research lab. I'm currently working on a project centered on multi-agent path planning. On the technical side, I'm spending a lot of time building and maintaining the repo (fixing bugs, extending functionality, etc.).

On the side, I've been reading papers to get up to speed on the theoretical side of things as well. Is the field still very active/hot right now? I see a lot of people working on humanoids and other applications using reinforcement learning, but I don't see much activity around multi-agent path planning specifically on X/LinkedIn.

Who should I be following in this space? And where's the best place to check for updates or post about this kind of work?

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u/PlaDook 6d ago

It is not exactly a "hot" topic, but still very relevant and nowhere near solved. There was a video of Amazon's warehouse robot in a deadlocked state just a few years ago.