Christian Henkel<p>🔄 Oh wow. After seeing this, I feel even more validated in my choice of PhD topic! 🤣<br>This video perfectly illustrates a common failure in multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF): local optimization without global coordination. These robots (likely in a warehouse) are stuck in a deadlock, each trying to avoid the other, but their decentralized decision-making leaves them trapped in a loop.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MultiAgentSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultiAgentSystems</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FleetManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FleetManagement</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/MAPF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAPF</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robotics</span></a><br>Video Credit: reddit/RoyalChris</p>