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While motion planning approaches for automated driving often focus on safety and mathematical optimality with respect to technical parameters, they barely consider convenience, perceived safety for the passenger and comprehensibility for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Maximilian Naumann , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

While the shortest path problem has myriad applications, the computational efficiency of suitable algorithms depends intimately on the underlying problem domain. In this paper, we focus on domains where evaluating the edge weight function…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Christopher M. Dellin , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Mapping in the GPS-denied environment is an important and challenging task in the field of robotics. In the large environment, mapping can be significantly accelerated by multiple robots exploring different parts of the environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Zutao Jiang , Jihua Zhu , Yaochen Li , Zhongyu Li , Huimin Lu

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mark L. Mote , Juan-Pablo Afman , Eric Feron

This paper introduces a new paradigm of optimal path planning, i.e., passage-traversing optimal path planning (PTOPP), that optimizes paths' traversed passages for specified optimization objectives. In particular, PTOPP is utilized to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jing Huang , Hao Su , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

In this work we introduce an implementation for which machine learning techniques helped improve the overall performance of an evolutionary algorithm for an optimization problem, namely a variation of robust minimum-cost path in graphs. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Ricardo Di Pasquale , Javier Marenco

Sampling-based methods for motion planning, which capture the structure of the robot's free space via (typically random) sampling, have gained popularity due to their scalability, simplicity, and for offering global guarantees, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Itai Panasoff , Kiril Solovey

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

Currently, path planning algorithms are used in many daily tasks. They are relevant to find the best route in traffic and make autonomous robots able to navigate. The use of path planning presents some issues in large and dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Janderson Ferreira , Agostinho A. F. Júnior , Yves M. Galvão , Pablo Barros , Sergio Murilo Maciel Fernandes , Bruno J. T. Fernandes

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

In this article, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm equipped with an information-theoretic convergence criterion for incremental informative motion planning. The proposed approach allows dense map representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Jaime Valls Miro , Gamini Dissanayake

GPS receivers embedded in cell phones and connected vehicles generate a series of location measurements that can be used for various analytical purposes. A common pre-processing step of this data is the so-called map matching. The goal of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-14 David Fiedler , Michal Čáp , Jan Nykl , Pavol Žilecký , Martin Schaefer

This paper addresses the trajectory planning problem for automated vehicle on-ramp highway merging. To tackle this challenge, we extend our previous work on trajectory planning at unsignalized intersections using Partially Observable Markov…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Adam Kollarčík , Zdeněk Hanzálek

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

Motion planning is an essential element of the modular architecture of autonomous vehicles, serving as a bridge between upstream perception modules and downstream low-level control signals. Traditional motion planners were initially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 MReza Alipour Sormoli , Konstantinos Koufos , Mehrdad Dianati , Roger Woodman

Path planning in robotics often involves solving continuously valued, high-dimensional problems. Popular informed approaches include graph-based searches, such as A*, and sampling-based methods, such as Informed RRT*, which utilize informed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Yu Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Robotic manipulators operating in dynamic and uncertain environments require efficient motion planning to navigate obstacles while maintaining smooth trajectories. Velocity Potential Field (VPF) planners offer real-time adaptability but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ho Minh Quang Ngo , Dac Dang Khoa Nguyen , Dinh Tung Le , Gavin Paul

When facing a new motion-planning problem, most motion planners solve it from scratch, e.g., via sampling and exploration or starting optimization from a straight-line path. However, most motion planners have to experience a variety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dibyendu Das , Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku , Xuesu Xiao

Path planning is critical for autonomous driving, generating smooth, collision-free, feasible paths based on perception and localization inputs. However, its computationally intensive nature poses significant challenges for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yifan Zhang , Xiaoyu Niu , Hongzheng Tian , Yanjun Zhang , Bo Yu , Shaoshan Liu , Sitao Huang