Efficient Planning of Multi-Robot Collective Transport using Graph Reinforcement Learning with Higher Order Topological Abstraction

Steve Paul,Wenyuan Li,Brian Smyth,Yuzhou Chen,Yulia Gel,Souma Chowdhury,Steve Paul,Wenyuan Li,Brian Smyth,Yuzhou Chen,Yulia Gel,Souma Chowdhury

Efficient multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is fundamental to various time-sensitive applications such as disaster response, warehouse operations, and construction. This paper tackles a particular class of these problems that we call MRTA-collective transport or MRTA-CT - here tasks present varying workloads and deadlines, and robots are subject to flight range, communication range, and payload c...