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COVER:COverage-VErified Roadmaps for Fixed-time Motion Planning in Continuous Semi-Static Environments

Robotics 2026-04-20 v2

Abstract

The ability to solve motion-planning queries within a fixed time budget is critical for deploying robotic systems in time-sensitive applications. Semi-static environments, where most of the workspace remains fixed while a subset of obstacles varies between tasks, exhibit structured variability that can be exploited to provide stronger guarantees than general-purpose planners. However, existing approaches either lack formal coverage guarantees or rely on discretizations of obstacle configurations that restrict applicability to realistic domains. This paper introduces COVER, a framework that incrementally constructs coverage-verified roadmaps for semi-static environments. COVER decomposes the arrangement space by independently partitioning the configuration space of each movable obstacle and verifies roadmap feasibility within each partition, enabling fixed-time query resolution for verified regions.We evaluate COVER on a 7-DoF manipulator performing object-picking in tabletop and shelf environments, demonstrating broader problem-space coverage and higher query success rates than prior work, particularly with obstacles of different sizes.

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@article{arxiv.2510.03875,
  title  = {COVER:COverage-VErified Roadmaps for Fixed-time Motion Planning in Continuous Semi-Static Environments},
  author = {Niranjan Kumar Ilampooranan and Constantinos Chamzas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03875},
  year   = {2026}
}
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