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Coverage motion planning is essential to a wide range of robotic tasks. Unlike conventional motion planning problems, which reason over temporal sequences of states, coverage motion planning requires reasoning over the spatial distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Max M. Sun , Jueun Kwon , Todd Murphey

Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing environments due to their efficiency in doing repetitive tasks such as assembly or welding. A common problem for these applications is to reach a destination without colliding with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Teham Bhuiyan , Linh Kästner , Yifan Hu , Benno Kutschank , Jens Lambrecht

Given a list of behaviors and associated parameterized controllers for solving different individual tasks, we study the problem of selecting an optimal sequence of coordinated behaviors in multi-robot systems for completing a given mission,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Pietro Pierpaoli , Thinh T. Doan , Justin Romberg , Magnus Egerstedt

We study the problem of multi-robot active mapping, which aims for complete scene map construction in minimum time steps. The key to this problem lies in the goal position estimation to enable more efficient robot movements. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kai Ye , Siyan Dong , Qingnan Fan , He Wang , Li Yi , Fei Xia , Jue Wang , Baoquan Chen

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

Kinodynamic Motion Planning (KMP) is to find a robot motion subject to concurrent kinematics and dynamics constraints. To date, quite a few methods solve KMP problems and those that exist struggle to find near-optimal solutions and exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Linjun Li , Yinglong Miao , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

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

The motion planning problem is a fundamental problem in robotics, so that every autonomous robot should be able to deal with it. A number of solutions have been proposed and a probabilistic one seems to be quite reasonable. However, here we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Kyriakos Papadopoulos , Apostolos Syropoulos

We present a general and modular algorithmic framework for path planning of robots. Our framework combines geometric methods for exact and complete analysis of low-dimensional configuration spaces, together with practical, considerably…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Oren Salzman , Michael Hemmer , Barak Raveh , Dan Halperin

Most existing motion planning algorithms assume that a map (of some quality) is fully determined prior to generating a motion plan. In many emerging applications of robotics, e.g., fast-moving agile aerial robots with constrained embedded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Thomas Sayre-McCord , Sertac Karaman

RecentadvancesinDistributedComputinghighlightmodelsandalgo- rithms for autonomous swarms of mobile robots that self-organize and cooperate to solve global objectives. The overwhelming majority of works so far considers handmade algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Laure Millet , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Nathalie Sznajder , Sébastien Tixeuil

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

We investigate multiple fundamental variants of the classic coordinated motion planning (CMP) problem for unit square robots in the plane under the $L_1$ metric. In coordinated motion planning, we are given two arrangements of $k$ robots…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sarita de Berg , Joachim Gudmundsson , Peter Kramer , Christian Rieck , Sampson Wong

When a large collection of objects (e.g., robots, sensors, etc.) has to be deployed in a given environment, it is often required to plan a coordinated motion of the objects from their initial position to a final configuration enjoying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Davide Bilò Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

We introduce an advanced, swift pattern recognition strategy for various multiple robotics during curve negotiation. This method, leveraging a sophisticated k-means clustering-enhanced Support Vector Machine algorithm, distinctly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rui Liu , Xuanzhen Xu , Yuwei Shen , Armando Zhu , Chang Yu , Tianjian Chen , Ye Zhang

Although the field of distributed optimization is well-developed, relevant literature focused on the application of distributed optimization to multi-robot problems is limited. This survey constitutes the second part of a two-part series on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ola Shorinwa , Trevor Halsted , Javier Yu , Mac Schwager

Motion planning is a key tool that allows robots to navigate through an environment without collisions. The problem of robot motion planning has been studied in great detail over the last several decades, with researchers initially focusing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Luka Petrović

We consider a chance-constrained multi-robot motion planning problem in the presence of Gaussian motion and sensor noise. Our proposed algorithm, CC-K-CBS, leverages the scalability of kinodynamic conflict-based search (K-CBS) in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anne Theurkauf , Justin Kottinger , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

State-of-the-art generalist manipulation policies have enabled the deployment of robotic manipulators in unstructured human environments. However, these frameworks struggle in cluttered environments primarily because they utilize auxiliary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Davood Soleymanzadeh , Ivan Lopez-Sanchez , Hao Su , Yunzhu Li , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

In this paper, we present a learning method to solve the unlabelled motion problem with motion constraints and space constraints in 2D space for a large number of robots. To solve the problem of arbitrary dynamics and constraints we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Arbaaz Khan , Vijay Kumar , Alejandro Ribeiro