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The sampling based motion planning algorithm known as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) has gained the attention of many researchers due to their computational efficiency and effectiveness. Recently, a variant of RRT called RRT* has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Sampling-based path planning algorithms suffer from heavy reliance on uniform sampling, which accounts for unreliable and time-consuming performance, especially in complex environments. Recently, neural-network-driven methods predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuan Huang , Cheng-Tien Tsao , Tianyu Shen , Hee-Hyol Lee

This paper presents a sampling-based method for optimal motion planning in non-holonomic systems in the absence of known cost functions. It uses the principle of learning through experience to deduce the cost-to-go of regions within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nahas Pareekutty , Francis James , Balaraman Ravindran , Suril V. Shah

Improving the performance of motion planning algorithms for high-degree-of-freedom robots usually requires reducing the cost or frequency of computationally expensive operations. Traditionally, and especially for asymptotically optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tyler S. Wilson , Wil Thomason , Zachary Kingston , Lydia E. Kavraki , Jonathan D. Gammell

Informed sampling techniques accelerate the convergence of sampling-based motion planners by biasing sampling toward regions of the state space that are most likely to yield better solutions. However, when the current solution path contains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Phone Thiha Kyaw , Anh Vu Le , Rajesh Elara Mohan , Jonathan Kelly

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as RRT* are well-known for their ability to quickly find an initial solution and then converge to the optimal solution asymptotically. However, the convergence rate can be slow for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongliang Zheng , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Motion Planning is necessary for robots to complete different tasks. Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) and its variants have been widely used in robot motion planning due to their fast search in state space. However, they perform not well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Zhirui Sun , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be very efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-03 Nicolas A. Barriga , Mauricio Araya-López , Mauricio Solar

This paper focuses on the motion planning problem for the systems exhibiting both continuous and discrete behaviors, which we refer to as hybrid dynamical systems. Firstly, the motion planning problem for hybrid systems is formulated using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

Rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs) have proven effective in quickly finding feasible solutions to complex motion planning problems. RRT* is an extension of the RRT algorithm that provides probabilistic asymptotic optimality guarantees…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 James Swedeen , Greg Droge , Randall Christensen

This paper addresses the problem of coordination of a fleet of mobile robots - the problem of finding an optimal set of collision-free trajectories for individual robots in the fleet. Many approaches have been introduced during the last…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Jakub Hvězda , Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil

This paper proposes a stable sparse rapidly-exploring random trees (SST) algorithm to solve the optimal motion planning problem for hybrid systems. At each iteration, the proposed algorithm, called HySST, selects a vertex with the lowest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Nan Wang , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

We introduce a simple yet effective sampling-based planner that is tailored for bottleneck pathfinding: Given an implicitly-defined cost map $\mathcal{M}:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, which assigns to every point in space a real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Kiril Solovey , Dan Halperin

Path planning is a crucial algorithmic approach for designing robot behaviors. Sampling-based approaches, like rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs) or probabilistic roadmaps, are prominent algorithmic solutions for path planning problems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 T. Dam , G. Chalvatzaki , J. Peters , J. Pajarinen

Sampling-based motion planning has emerged as a powerful approach for robotics, enabling exploration of complex, high-dimensional configuration spaces. When combined with Signal Temporal Logic (STL), a temporal logic widely used for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ahmad Ahmad , Shuo Liu , Roberto Tron , Calin Belta

Path planning in robotics often requires finding high-quality solutions to continuously valued and/or high-dimensional problems. These problems are challenging and most planning algorithms instead solve simplified approximations. Popular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jonathan D. Gammell , Timothy D. Barfoot , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

Recent progress in randomized motion planners has led to the development of a new class of sampling-based algorithms that provide asymptotic optimality guarantees, notably the RRT* and the PRM* algorithms. Careful analysis reveals that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Oktay Arslan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree star (RRT*) has recently gained immense popularity in the motion planning community as it provides a probabilistically complete and asymptotically optimal solution without requiring the complete information of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Zaid Tahir , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz , Raheel Nawaz

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

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and constraints. It is often desirable for this path to also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan D. Gammell , Marlin P. Strub