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Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jingchuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jing Li , Xiguang Wei , Wenzhe Tan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hongbo Li

This paper considers the path planning problem for autonomous exploration of an unknown environment using multiple heterogeneous robots such as drones, wheeled, and legged robots, which have different capabilities to traverse complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Longrui Yang , Yiyu Wang , Jingfan Tang , Yunpeng Lv , Shizhe Zhao , Chao Cao , Zhongqiang Ren

Path planning is a fundamental capability of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), enabling them to efficiently navigate toward a target region or explore complex environments while avoiding obstacles. Traditional pathplanning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jianlin Ye , Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios

Efficient robotic extraterrestrial exploration requires robots with diverse capabilities, ranging from scientific measurement tools to advanced locomotion. A robotic team enables the distribution of tasks over multiple specialized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Matthias Rubio , Julia Richter , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Marco Hutter

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithms have been applied successfully to challenging robot motion planning and under-actuated nonlinear control problems. However a fundamental limitation of the RRT approach is the slow convergence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mathew Mithra Noel , Akshay Chawla

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

This paper presents a two-step algorithm for online trajectory planning in indoor environments with unknown obstacles. In the first step, sampling-based path planning techniques such as the optimal Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT*)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Zimmermann , Minh Nhat Vu , Florian Beck , Anh Nguyen , Andreas Kugi

This paper proposes a fully data-driven motion-planning framework for homogeneous linear multi-agent systems that operate in shared, obstacle-filled workspaces without access to explicit system models. Each agent independently learns its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Babak Esmaeili , Hamidreza Modares

Proper path planning is the first step of robust and efficient autonomous navigation for mobile robots. Meanwhile, it is still challenging for robots to work in a complex environment without complete prior information. This paper presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wenjian Hao , Rongyao Wang , Alexander Krolicki , Yiqiang Han

Motion Planning is necessary for robots to complete different tasks. Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) and its variants have been widely used in robot motion planning due to their fast search in state space. However, they perform not well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Zhirui Sun , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

This paper addresses the problem of coordination of a fleet of mobile robots - the problem of finding an optimal set of collision-free trajectories for individual robots in the fleet. Many approaches have been introduced during the last…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jakub Hvězda , Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil

Balancing the trade-off between safety and efficiency is of significant importance for path planning under uncertainty. Many risk-aware path planners have been developed to explicitly limit the probability of collision to an acceptable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fei Meng , Liangliang Chen , Han Ma , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We consider the problem of using an autonomous agent to persistently monitor a collection of dynamic targets distributed in an environment. We generalize existing work by allowing the agent's dynamics to vary throughout the environment,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Jonas Hall , Christos G. Cassandras , Sean B. Andersson

Path planning for multiple robots is well studied in the AI and robotics communities. For a given discretized environment, robots need to find collision-free paths to a set of specified goal locations. Robots can be fully anonymous,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Wolfgang Hönig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Liron Cohen , Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian

We study the navigation problem for a robot moving amidst static and dynamic obstacles and rely on a hierarchical approach to solve it. First, the reference trajectory is planned by the safe interval path planning algorithm that is capable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Juliya Belinskaya , Dmitry Makarov

Planning a path for a nonholonomic robot is a challenging topic in motion planning and it becomes more difficult when the desired path contains narrow passages. This kind of scenario can arise, for instance, when quadcopters search a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yaohui Guo , Zhaolun Su , Dmitry Berenson , Ding Zhao

In this paper, we introduce a method to deal with the problem of robot local path planning among pushable objects -- an open problem in robotics. In particular, we achieve that by training multiple agents simultaneously in a physics-based…

Collision-free mobile robot navigation is an important problem for many robotics applications, especially in cluttered environments. In such environments, obstacles can be static or dynamic. Dynamic obstacles can additionally be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Autonomous robot navigation systems often rely on hierarchical planning, where global planners compute collision-free paths without considering dynamics, and local planners enforce dynamics constraints to produce executable commands. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuanjie Lu , Mingyang Mao , Tong Xu , Linji Wang , Xiaomin Lin , Xuesu Xiao