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The container relocation problem is a challenging combinatorial optimisation problem tasked with finding a sequence of container relocations required to retrieve all containers by a given order. Due to the complexity of this problem,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Mrko Đurasević , Mateja Đumić

This paper proposes a bidirectional rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) algorithm to solve the motion planning problem for hybrid systems. The proposed algorithm, called HyRRT-Connect, propagates in both forward and backward directions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Sampling-based planning algorithms like Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) are versatile in solving path planning problems. RRT* offers asymptotic optimality but requires growing the tree uniformly over the free space, which leaves room…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Zhe Huang , Hongyu Chen , John Pohovey , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

We address the problem of motion planning for four-way intersection crossings with right-of-ways. Road safety typically assigns liability to the follower in rear-end collisions and to the approaching vehicle required to yield in side…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Tim Puphal , Malte Probst , Misa Komuro , Yiyang Li , Julian Eggert

This paper proposes a bidirectional rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) algorithm to solve the motion planning problem for hybrid systems. The proposed algorithm, called HyRRT-Connect, propagates in both forward and backward directions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

World models simulate environment dynamics from raw sensory inputs like video. However, using them for planning can be challenging due to the vast and unstructured search space. We propose a robust and highly parallelizable planner that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Michael Psenka , Michael Rabbat , Aditi Krishnapriyan , Yann LeCun , Amir Bar

Trajectory planning for quadrotors in cluttered environments has been challenging in recent years. While many trajectory planning frameworks have been successful, there still exists potential for improvements, particularly in enhancing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Pengyu Wang , Jiawei Tang , Hin Wang Lin , Fan Zhang , Chaoqun Wang , Jiankun Wang , Ling Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

Dynamic scheduling in real-world environments often struggles to adapt to unforeseen disruptions, making traditional static scheduling methods and human-designed heuristics inadequate. This paper introduces an innovative approach that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xinan Chen , Rong Qu , Jing Dong , Ruibin Bai , Yaochu Jin

We propose a variant of the Rapidly Exploring Random Tree Star (RRT$^{\star}$) algorithm to synthesize trajectories satisfying a given spatio-temporal specification expressed in a fragment of Signal Temporal Logic (STL) for linear systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Gregorio Marchesini , Siyuan Liu , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers a generalization of the Path Finding (PF) problem with refuelling constraints referred to as the Gas Station Problem (GSP). Similar to PF, given a graph where vertices are gas stations with known fuel prices, and edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Shizhe Zhao , Anushtup Nandy , Howie Choset , Sivakumar Rathinam , Zhongqiang Ren

Optimal path planning requires finding a series of feasible states from the starting point to the goal to optimize objectives. Popular path planning algorithms, such as Effort Informed Trees (EIT*), employ effort heuristics to guide the…

A common paradigm in classical planning is heuristic forward search. Forward search planners often rely on simple best-first search which remains fixed throughout the search process. In this paper, we introduce a novel search framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo

Rearrangement puzzles are variations of rearrangement problems in which the elements of a problem are potentially logically linked together. To efficiently solve such puzzles, we develop a motion planning approach based on a new state space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Servet B. Bayraktar , Andreas Orthey , Zachary Kingston , Marc Toussaint , Lydia E. Kavraki

This paper proposes a rapidly-exploring random trees (RRT) algorithm to solve the motion planning problem for hybrid systems. At each iteration, the proposed algorithm, called HyRRT, randomly picks a state sample and extends the search tree…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

A fundamental concern in real-time planning is the presence of dead-ends in the state space, from which no goal is reachable. Recently, the SafeRTS algorithm was proposed for searching in such spaces. SafeRTS exploits a user-provided…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Bence Cserna , Kevin C. Gall , Wheeler Ruml

Heuristics are a central component of deterministic planning, particularly in domain-independent settings where general applicability is prioritized over task-specific tuning. This work revisits that paradigm in light of recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Alexander Tuisov , Yonatan Vernik , Alexander Shleyfman

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star(RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacle's geometry in a given environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Informed sampling-based planning algorithms exploit problem knowledge for better search performance. This knowledge is often expressed as heuristic estimates of solution cost and used to order the search. The practical improvement of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

Path planning is an important component in any highly automated vehicle system. In this report, the general problem of path planning is considered first in partially known static environments where only static obstacles are present but the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Asem Khattab

Path planning plays a crucial role in various autonomy applications, and RRT* is one of the leading solutions in this field. In this paper, we propose the utilization of vertex-based networks to enhance the sampling process of RRT*, leading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Yuanhang Zhang , Jundong Liu