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We present a planning framework designed for humanoid navigation over challenging terrain. This framework is designed to plan a traversable, smooth, and collision-free path using a 2.5D height map. The planner is comprised of two stages.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Stephen McCrory , Bhavyansh Mishra , Jaehoon An , Robert Griffin , Jerry Pratt , Hakki Erhan Sevil

This paper proposes a novel method of coverage path planning for the purpose of scanning an unstructured environment autonomously. The method uses the morphological skeleton of the prior 2D navigation map via SLAM to generate a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Alexander James Becoy , Kseniia Khomenko , Luka Peternel , Raj Thilak Rajan

For rapid growth in technology and automation, human tasks are being taken over by robots as robots have proven to be better with both speed and precision. One of the major and widespread usages of these robots is in the industrial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari , Sandeep Varma Nadimpalli

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

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

This paper presents an online path planning algorithm for safe autonomous manipulation of a flexibly constrained object in an unknown environment. Methods for real time identification and characterization of perceived flexible constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Samrat Bhattacharyya , Nabil Simaan

If we give a robot the task of moving an object from its current position to another location in an unknown environment, the robot must explore the map, identify all types of obstacles, and then determine the best route to complete the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

We present an algorithm for planning trajectories that avoid obstacles and satisfy key-door precedence specifications expressed with a fragment of signal temporal logic. Our method includes a novel exact convex partitioning of the obstacle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Shilin You , Gael Luna , Juned Shaikh , David Gostin , Yu Xiang , Justin Koeln , Tyler Summers

In this work, we introduce SPADE, a path planning framework designed for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments using 3D scene graphs. SPADE combines hierarchical path planning with local geometric awareness to enable collision-free…

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

In this study, we present a simple and intuitive method for accelerating optimal Reeds-Shepp path computation. Our approach uses geometrical reasoning to analyze the behavior of optimal paths, resulting in a new partitioning of the state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ibrahim Ibrahim , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

Path planning for multiple tethered robots is a challenging problem due to the complex interactions among the cables and the possibility of severe entanglements. Previous works on this problem either consider idealistic cable models or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Muqing Cao , Kun Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Kangcheng Liu , Yan Loi Wong , Lihua Xie

In this paper we address the problem of path planning in an unknown environment with an aerial robot. The main goal is to safely follow the planned trajectory by avoiding obstacles. The proposed approach is suitable for aerial vehicles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ana Batinovic , Jurica Goricanec , Lovro Markovic , Stjepan Bogdan

Path planning for wheeled mobile robots is a critical component in the field of automation and intelligent transportation systems. Car-like vehicles, which have non-holonomic constraints on their movement capability impose additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lukas Schichler , Karin Festl , Selim Solmaz , Daniel Watzenig

We consider the problem of planning a collision-free path of a robot in the presence of risk zones. The robot is allowed to travel in these zones but is penalized in a super-linear fashion for consecutive accumulative time spent there. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Oren Salzman , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

Surveillance and exploration of large environments is a tedious task. In spaces with limited environmental cues, random-like search is an effective approach as it allows the robot to perform online coverage of environments using simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Karan Sridharan , Patrick McNamee , Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi , Jeffrey Hudack

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) allows a system to interact with its environment and take actions by training an efficient policy that maximizes self-defined rewards. In autonomous driving, it can be used as a strategy for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xibo Li , Shruti Patel , Christof Büskens

For effective real-world deployment, robots should adapt to human preferences, such as balancing distance, time, and safety in delivery routing. Active preference learning (APL) learns human reward functions by presenting trajectories for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yi-Shiuan Tung , Bradley Hayes , Alessandro Roncone

Path planning is an important problem with the the applications in many aspects, such as video games, robotics etc. This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based path planning for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Shuangjiang Yu , Zijun Gao , Tong Wu