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Nitzan Madar officially completed his M.Sc. studies and submitted his thesis, titled “Leveraging Experience in Lifelong Multi-Agent Pathfinding”.

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Nitzan Madar's paper titled "Leveraging Experience in Lifelong Multi-Agent Pathfinding" (co-authored by Kiril Solovey and Oren Salzman) has been accepted to the 15th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, along with the paper Bounded Cost Bi-Objective Heuristic Search (by Shawn Skyler, Dor Atzmon, Ariel Felner, Oren Salzman, Han Zhang, Sven Koenig, William Yeoh and Carlos Hernandez) and Anytime Approximate Bi-Objective Search (by Han Zhang, Oren Salzman, T. K. Satish Kumar, Ariel Felner, Carlos Hernandez, and Sven Koenig).

Doron Pinsky, CRL's first TASP alumnus, officially completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, titled "T*${\varepsilon}$ - Bounded-Suboptimal Efficient Motion Planning for Minimum-Time Planar Curvature-Constrained Systems", published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and to be presented at ICRA 2022, focused on an efficient computation of bounded-suboptimal paths for curvature-constrained variable-speed planar systems.  

A paper co-authored with Han Zhang, Satish Kumar, Ariel Felner, Carlos Hernández and Sven Koenig titled “A*pex: Approximate and Efficient Multi-Objective Search on Graphs” has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).

A paper co-authored with Mengyu Fu, Kiril Solovey and Ron Alterovitz titled ``Resolution-Optimal Motion Planning for Steerable Needles'' has been accepted for publication in the  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).  

Nir Greshler  completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, co-authored with Nahum Shimkin and titled "Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding" was presented at MRS 2021. It focused on the coordination aspects of the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem.  

Doron Pinsk's paper titled "$T^*_{\epsilon}$—Bounded Sub-optimal Efficient Motion Planning for Minimum-Time Planar Curvature-Constrained Systems" (co-authored by Petr Váňa and Jan Faigl from Czech Technical University) has been accepted for publication to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Congradulations to David Weinstein for winning the first prize in the 2021 CS research day for his work on Terraforming Multi Agent Pathfinding. Additional details can be found here.  

Ofir Gordon, CRL's first official alumnus, completed his M.Sc. studies. His thesis, titled “Toward Understanding the Hardness of Multi-Agent Path Finding” and presented at SoCS 2021, focused on the complexity aspects of the Multi-Agent Path Finding problem.  

Our paper titled "Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles" co-authored with Mengyu Fu and Ron Alterovitz is gaining visibility also in non-academic venues including the Technion's archive (Hebrew), the Jerusalem post, and in the hebrew podcast שלושה שיודעים (interview appears on Oct 10th at 1:03:30).