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Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its variations have emerged as a robust and efficient tool for finding collision-free paths in robotic systems. However, adding dynamic constraints makes the motion planning problem significantly…

We present a novel analysis of AO-RRT: a tree-based planner for motion planning with kinodynamic constraints, originally described by Hauser and Zhou (AO-X, 2016). AO-RRT explores the state-cost space and has been shown to efficiently…

Many robots operating in unpredictable environments require an online path planning algorithm that can quickly compute high quality paths. Asymptotically optimal planners are capable of finding the optimal path, but can be slow to converge.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Scott Paulin , Tom Botterill , XiaoQi Chen , Richard Green

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

In this paper, a sampling-based trajectory planning algorithm for a laboratory-scale 3D gantry crane in an environment with static obstacles and subject to bounds on the velocity and acceleration of the gantry crane system is presented. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Minh Nhat Vu , Michael Schwegel , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Andreas Kugi

Anytime almost-surely asymptotically optimal planners, such as RRT*, incrementally find paths to every state in the search domain. This is inefficient once an initial solution is found as then only states that can provide a better solution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Jonathan D Gammell , Timothy D Barfoot , Siddhartha S Srinivasa

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

Asymptotically-optimal motion planners such as RRT* have been shown to incrementally approximate the shortest path between start and goal states. Once an initial solution is found, their performance can be dramatically improved by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Daqing Yi , Rohan Thakker , Cole Gulino , Oren Salzman , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Efficiently finding safe and feasible trajectories for mobile objects is a critical field in robotics and computer science. In this paper, we propose SIL-RRT*, a novel learning-based motion planning algorithm that extends the RRT* algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuzhe Dang , Stefan Edelkamp

The objective of this study is to enable fast and safe manipulation tasks in home environments. Specifically, we aim to develop a system that can recognize its surroundings and identify target objects while in motion, enabling it to plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Keisuke Takeshita , Takahiro Yamazaki , Tomohiro Ono , Takashi Yamamoto

With the pervasiveness of Stochastic Shortest-Path (SSP) problems in high-risk industries, such as last-mile autonomous delivery and supply chain management, robust planning algorithms are crucial for ensuring successful task completion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Clinton Enwerem , Erfaun Noorani , John S. Baras , Brian M. Sadler

Optimal path planning aims to determine a sequence of states from a start to a goal while accounting for planning objectives. Popular methods often integrate fixed batch sizes and neglect information on obstacles, which is not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Liding Zhang , Sicheng Wang , Kuanqi Cai , Zhenshan Bing , Fan Wu , Chaoqun Wang , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Path planning in dynamic environments remains a core challenge in robotics, especially as autonomous systems are deployed in unpredictable spaces such as warehouses and public roads. While algorithms like Fast Marching Tree (FMT$^{*}$)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Soheil Espahbodini Nia

The majority of existing Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) planning methods rely on the construction of a discrete product automaton, that combines a discrete abstraction of robot mobility and a B$\ddot{\text{u}}$chi automaton that captures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xusheng Luo , Yiannis Kantaros , Michael M. Zavlanos

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

Sampling-based algorithms, such as Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its variants, have been used extensively for motion planning. Control barrier functions (CBFs) have been recently proposed to synthesize controllers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Ahmad Ahmad , Calin Belta , Roberto Tron

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

By utilizing only depth information, the paper introduces a novel but efficient local planning approach that enhances not only computational efficiency but also planning performances for memoryless local planners. The sampling is first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Thai Binh Nguyen , Linh Nguyen , Tanveer Choudhury , Kathleen Keogh , Manzur Murshed

Continuum robots (CR) offer excellent dexterity and compliance in contrast to rigid-link robots, making them suitable for navigating through, and interacting with, confined environments. However, the study of path planning for CRs while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yifan Wang , Yue Chen

Flow-based methods for sampling and generative modeling use continuous-time dynamical systems to represent a {transport map} that pushes forward a source measure to a target measure. The introduction of a time axis provides considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-19 Panos Tsimpos , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech , Youssef Marzouk