Multi-Robot Systems Lab

Electrical and Computer Engineering | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

The Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) lab aims to endow individual robots and multi-robot teams with theory-driven and practical algorithms for tackling complex tasks. Our work explores fundamental questions in, e.g., control, planning, coordination, as well as applications in areas such as autonomous racing and driving, smart mobility, and disaster relief. We draw inspiration from various domains, including mathematics, computational sciences (optimization and artificial intelligence), and engineering (robotics, control, and transportation science), and rigorously test our ideas in theory and on physical hardware.

The lab is headed by Prof. Kiril Solovey from the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who is affiliated with Tech.AI, the Autonomous Systems Program, and the Applied Mathematics Program. We host the Technion F1TENTH team who develop autonomous racecars for head-to-head racing.

:wave: We’re recruiting MSc, PhD students and PostDocs with strong background in math, algorithms, optimization, and robotics to work on autonomous racing and driving :checkered_flag:, optimization for autonomous mobility-on-demand :oncoming_automobile:, learning-based methods for model predictive control :robot:

News

May 07, 2023 Our paper “Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023
May 01, 2023 Our paper “Terraforming—Environment Manipulation during Disruptions for Multi-Agent Pickup and Deliver” accepted to International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2023
Apr 05, 2023 Our paper “Toward Certifiable Optimal Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles” accepted to International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023
Mar 01, 2023 Revised version “Probabilistic Completeness of RRT for Geometric and Kinodynamic Planning with Forward Propagation” correcting an (embarasing) error in the proof is out. Shout-out to Albert Wu and Thomas Lew for spotting the mistake.
Jul 15, 2022 Our paper on “Robust-RRT: Probabilistically-Complete Motion Planning for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems” was accepted to the International Foundation of Robotics Research, 2022

Selected Publications

  1. arXiv
    Adir Morgan, Oren Salzman, and Kiril Solovey
    Inspection-SPARS: Task-Oriented Sparse Roadmaps for Inspection Planning
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.35516, 2026
  2. arXiv
    Yaniv Hassidof, Adir Morgan, Yilun Du, and Kiril Solovey
    Plan First, Diffuse Later: Extrinsic Graph Guidance for Long-Horizon Diffusion Planning
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14660, 2026
  3. IROS
    Anil Zaher, Kiril Solovey, and Alejandro Cohen
    Bringing Network Coding into Multi-Robot Systems: Interplay Study for Autonomous Systems over Wireless Communications
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2026
  4. arXiv
    Snir Carmeli, Adir Morgan, and Kiril Solovey
    Routing and Control for Marine Oil-Spill Cleanup with a Boom-Towing Vessel Fleet
    arXiv preprint 2603.16626, 2026
  5. WAFR
    Adir Morgan, Kiril Solovey, and Oren Salzman
    Scalable Inspection Planning via Flow-based Mixed Integer Linear Programming
    In World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (Invited to International Journal of Robotics Research), 2026
  6. WAFR
    Avishav Engle, Andrey Zhitnikov, Oren Salzman, Omer Ben-Porat, and Kiril Solovey
    Effective Game-Theoretic Motion Planning via Nested Search
    In World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (Invited to International Journal of Robotics Research), 2026
  7. arXiv
    Maximillian Fainkich, Kiril Solovey, and Anna Clarke
    Motion Planning for Safe Landing of a Human-Piloted Parafoil
    arXiv preprint 2512.10595, 2025
  8. CoRL :trophy:
    Yaniv Hassidof, Tom Jurgenson, and Kiril Solovey
    Train-Once Plan-Anywhere Kinodynamic Motion Planning via Diffusion Trees
    In Conference on Robot Learning, 2025; Israeli Association for Automatic Control (IAAC) GSC award
  9. T-RO
    Shmuel David Alpert, Kiril Solovey, Itzik Klein, and Oren Salzman
    Inspection planning under execution uncertainty
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2025
  10. RSS
    Itai Panasoff, and Kiril Solovey
    Effective Sampling for Robot Motion Planning Through the Lens of Lattices
    In Robotics: Science and Systems, 2025
  11. ICRA
    Roy Steinberg, and Kiril Solovey
    Impossibility of Self-Organized Aggregation without Computation
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025