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This paper addresses path planning of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with remote sensing capabilities (or wireless communication capabilities). The goal of the path planning is to find a minimum-flight-time closed tour of the UAV visiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Dae-Sung Jang , Hyeok-Joo Chae , Han-Lim Choi

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environment heavily depends on the environment and its topology. Prior knowledge of the environment is not usually accurate as the environment keeps evolving in time. Since robot is continuously evaluating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xihan Ma , Honglin Sun , Enwei Xu , Song Cui , Boqun Yin , Mariam Faied

Estimating collision probabilities between robots and environmental obstacles or other moving agents is crucial to ensure safety during path planning. This is an important building block of modern planning algorithms in many application…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Felix Herrmann , Sebastian Zach , Jacopo Banfi , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Davide Tateo

High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Minghao Lu , Xiyu Fan , Bowen Xu , Zexuan Yan , Rui Peng , Han Chen , Lixian Zhang , Peng Lu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) use continues to increase, including operating beyond line of sight in unknown environments where the vehicle must autonomously generate a trajectory to safely navigate. In this article, we develop a trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Kenan Cole , Adam Wickenheiser

Despite extensive developments in motion planning of autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs), existing frameworks faces the challenges of local minima and deadlock in complex dynamic environments, leading to increased collision risks. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junzhi Li , Teng Long , Jingliang Sun , Jianxin Zhong

Reliable localization is an essential capability for marine robots navigating in GPS-denied environments. SLAM, commonly used to mitigate dead reckoning errors, still fails in feature-sparse environments or with limited-range sensors. Pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , John McConnell , Jinkun Wang , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

Today AUVs operation still remains restricted to very particular tasks with low real autonomy due to battery restrictions. Efficient motion planning and mission scheduling are principle requirement toward advance autonomy and facilitate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Somaiyeh Mahmoud. Zadeh , David M. W Powers , Karl Sammut

This paper discusses opportunities to parallelize graph based path planning algorithms in a time varying environment. Parallel architectures have become commonplace, requiring algorithm to be parallelized for efficient execution. An…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Mike Eichhorn , Ulrich Kremer

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami

Existing Global Path Planning (GPP) algorithms predominantly presume planning in static environments. This assumption immensely limits their applications to Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) that typically navigate in dynamic environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Jinghao Xin , Jinwoo Kim , Shengjia Chu , Ning Li

This paper presents a three-dimensional, hydrodynamics-inspired collision avoidance framework for uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) formations operating in dynamic environments. When moving obstacles enter a UAV's sensing region, they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Suguru Sato , Kamesh Subbarao

The growing use of mobile robots in sectors such as automotive, agriculture, and rescue operations reflects progress in robotics and autonomy. In unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most research emphasizes visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jingwen Wei

Path planning with strong environmental adaptability plays a crucial role in robotic navigation in unstructured outdoor environments, especially in the case of low-quality location and map information. The path planning ability of a robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jianfeng Zhang , Hanlin Dong , Jian Yang , Jiahui Liu , Shibo Huang , Ke Li , Xuan Tang , Xian Wei , Xiong You

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are essential for various applications, including oceanographic surveys, underwater mapping, and infrastructure inspections. Accurate and robust navigation are critical to completing these tasks. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yair Stolero , Itzik Klein

The performance optimization of UAV communication systems requires the joint design of UAV trajectory and communication efficiently. To tackle the challenge of infinite design variables arising from the continuous-time UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Yijun Guo , Changsheng You , Changchuan Yin , Rui Zhang

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

This paper addresses the problem of trajectory optimization for an unmanned surface vehicle while considering direction-dependent ocean currents and flexible refueling constraints. This work is motivated by the rising interest in developing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Aaron Kandel , Chu Xu , David Cardona , Carey Whitehair

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