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A novel coupled path planning and energy management problem for a hybrid unmanned air vehicle is considered, where the hybrid vehicle is powered by a dual gas/electric system. Such an aerial robot is envisioned for use in an urban setting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Satyanarayana G. Manyam , David W. Casbeer , Swaroop Darbha , Isaac E. Weintraub , Krishna Kalyanam

The demand is to solve the issue of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operating autonomously and implementing practical functions such as search and rescue in complex unknown environments. This paper proposes an autonomous search and rescue UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Haobin Chen , Junyu Tao , Bize Zhou , Xiaoyan Liu

Balancing safety and efficiency when planning in crowded scenarios with uncertain dynamics is challenging where it is imperative to accomplish the robot's mission without incurring any safety violations. Typically, chance constraints are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Khaled A. Mustafa , Oscar de Groot , Xinwei Wang , Jens Kober , Javier Alonso-Mora

Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to plan its trajectory in complex scenarios when it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Xiangguo Liu , Ruochen Jiao , Yixuan Wang , Yimin Han , Bowen Zheng , Qi Zhu

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environment heavily depends on the environment and its topology. Prior knowledge of the environment is not usually accurate as the environment keeps evolving in time. Since robot is continuously evaluating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xihan Ma , Honglin Sun , Enwei Xu , Song Cui , Boqun Yin , Mariam Faied

This paper proposes an uncertainty-aware marine pollution source tracking framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). By integrating high-fidelity marine pollution dispersion simulation with informative path planning techniques, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Song Ma , Yanchao Wang , Richard Bucknall , Yuanchang Liu

In the paper, we introduced a novel variant of Electric VRP/TSP, the Solar Powered Rover Routing Problem (SPRRP), to tackle the routing of energy-constrained autonomous electric vehicles for Martian missions. We proposed a basic formulation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Wojciech Burzyński , Mariusz Kaleta

We present a new application of model checking which achieves real-time multi-step planning and obstacle avoidance on a real autonomous robot. We have developed a small, purpose-built model checking algorithm which generates plans in situ…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christopher Chandler , Bernd Porr , Giulia Lafratta , Alice Miller

Autonomous underwater robots typically require higher cost and time for demonstrations compared to other domains due to the complexity of the environment. Due to the limited capacity and payload flexibility, it is challenging to find…

Automated driving on ramps presents significant challenges due to the need to balance both safety and efficiency during lane changes. This paper proposes an integrated planner for automated vehicles (AVs) on ramps, utilizing an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Yaoze Liu , Zhen Tian , Qifan Zhou , Zixuan Huang , Hongyu Sun

In recent years, there is a noteworthy advancement in autonomous drone racing. However, the primary focus is on attaining execution times, while scant attention is given to the challenges of dynamic environments. The high-speed nature of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Qianhao Wang , Dong Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao

Expansion of today's underwater scenarios and missions necessitates the requestion for robust decision making of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV); hence, design an efficient decision making framework is essential for maximizing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , David M. W Powers , Karl Sammut , Amir Mehdi Yazdani

In order to keep aquatic ecosystems safe and healthy, it is imperative that cleaning be done frequently. This research suggests the use of autonomous underwater rovers for effective underwater cleaning as a novel approach to this issue. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Aditya Sundarajan , Jaideepnath Anand , Kevin Timothy Muller , Mangal Das

An unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) is sent on a mission to explore and reconstruct an unknown environment from a series of measurements collected by Bayesian optimization. The success of the mission is judged by the UAV's ability to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-09 Antoine Blanchard , Themistoklis Sapsis

In autonomous navigation, a planning system reasons about other agents to plan a safe and plausible trajectory. Before planning starts, agents are typically processed with computationally intensive models for recognition, tracking, motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Khaled S. Refaat , Kai Ding , Natalia Ponomareva , Stéphane Ross

This paper presents a search-based partial motion planner to generate dynamically feasible trajectories for car-like robots in highly dynamic environments. The planner searches for smooth, safe, and near-time-optimal trajectories by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jiahui Lin , Tong Zhou , Delong Zhu , Jianbang Liu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Machine learning (ML) plays a crucial role in assessing traversability for autonomous rover operations on deformable terrains but suffers from inevitable prediction errors. Especially for heterogeneous terrains where the geological features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Masafumi Endo , Tatsunori Taniai , Ryo Yonetani , Genya Ishigami

In this paper, we present a user-friendly planetary rover's control system for low latency surface telerobotic. Thanks to the proposed system, an operator can comfortably give commands through the control base station to a rover using…

Planning is an essential topic in the realm of automated driving. Besides planning algorithms that are widely covered in the literature, planning requires different software tools for its development, validation, and execution. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Kailin Tong , Zlatan Ajanovic , Georg Stettinger

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) needs to acquire a certain degree of autonomy for any particular underwater mission to fulfill the mission objectives successfully and ensure its safety in all stages of the mission in a large scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , David MW Powers , Karl Sammut , Amirmehdi Yazdani