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Robotic simulators play a crucial role in the development and testing of autonomous systems, particularly in the realm of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV). However, existing simulators often lack high-level autonomy, hindering their immediate…

This paper presents a continuous-time optimal control framework for the generation of reference trajectories in driving scenarios with uncertainty. A previous work presented a discrete-time stochastic generator for autonomous vehicles;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ange Valli , Shangyuan Zhang , Abdel Lisser

In the last decade, a great effort has been employed in the study of Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Underwater Vehicles, robots that can easily fly and dive into the water with different levels of mechanical adaptation. However, most of this…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles need an online path planning capability to move in high-risk missions in unknown and complex environments to complete them safely. However, many algorithms reported in the literature may not return reliable…

Reliable 4D aircraft trajectory prediction, whether in a real-time setting or for analysis of counterfactuals, is important to the efficiency of the aviation system. Toward this end, we first propose a highly generalizable efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yulin Liu , Mark Hansen

Post-disaster situations pose unique navigation challenges. One of those challenges is the unstructured nature of the environment, which makes it hard to layout paths for rescue vehicles. We propose the use of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raghav Adhikari , Sachet Khatiwada , Suman Poudel

Trajectory generation for visually impaired scenarios requires smooth and temporally consistent state in structured, low-speed dynamic environments. However, traditional jerk-based heuristic trajectory sampling with independent segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuting Zeng , Manping Fan , You Zhou , Yongbin Yu , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingtao Zhang , Liyong Ren , Zhenglin Yang

Vehicle trajectory prediction is nowadays a fundamental pillar of self-driving cars. Both the industry and research communities have acknowledged the need for such a pillar by providing public benchmarks. While state-of-the-art methods are…

Due to changes in model dynamics or unexpected disturbances, an autonomous robotic system may experience unforeseen challenges during real-world operations which may affect its safety and intended behavior: in particular actuator and system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Esen Yel , Nicola Bezzo

In unseen and complex outdoor environments, collision avoidance navigation for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms presents a challenging problem. It requires UAVs to navigate through various obstacles and complex backgrounds. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiafan Zhuang , Gaofei Han , Zihao Xia , Boxi Wang , Wenji Li , Dongliang Wang , Zhifeng Hao , Ruichu Cai , Zhun Fan

Exploration and mapping of unknown environments is a fundamental task in applications for autonomous robots. In this article, we present a complete framework for deploying MAVs in autonomous exploration missions in unknown subterranean…

This paper addresses the problem of planning a safe (i.e., collision-free) trajectory from an initial state to a goal region when the obstacle space is a-priori unknown and is incrementally revealed online, e.g., through line-of-sight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Lucas Janson , Tommy Hu , Marco Pavone

This paper presents an approach for learning online generation of collision-free and torque-limited robot trajectories. In order to generate future motions, a neural network is periodically invoked. Based on the current kinematic state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jonas C. Kiemel , Torsten Kröger

In this paper, we present an online method for converting an arbitrary geometric path represented by a sequence of states, generated by any planner (e.g., sampling-based planners like RRT or PRM, search-based planners like ARA*, etc.), into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nermin Covic , Bakir Lacevic

In this paper, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Internet-of-Things (IoT) system in a sophisticated three-dimensional (3D) environment, where the UAV's trajectory is optimized to efficiently collect data from multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yang Wang , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Dezhi Zheng , Yue Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

In this paper, a combat Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) is modeled in the simulation environment. The rotary wing UAV is successfully performed various tasks such as locking on the targets, tracking, and sharing the relevant data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-28 A. Huzeyfe Demir , Berke Yavas , Mehmet Yazici , Dogukan Aksu , M. Ali Aydin

The ability to predict the future movements of other vehicles is a subconscious and effortless skill for humans and key to safe autonomous driving. Therefore, trajectory prediction for autonomous cars has gained a lot of attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benedikt Mersch , Thomas Höllen , Kun Zhao , Cyrill Stachniss , Ribana Roscher

A fundamental prerequisite for safe and efficient navigation of mobile robots is the availability of reliable navigation maps upon which trajectories can be planned. With the increasing industrial interest in mobile robotics, especially in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Luca Mozzarelli , Simone Specchia , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Although quadrotor navigation has achieved high performance in trajectory planning and control, real-time adaptability in unknown complex environments remains a core challenge. This difficulty mainly arises because most existing planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xuchen Liu , Ruocheng Li , Bin Xin , Weijia Yao , Qigeng Duan , Jinqiang Cui , Ben M. Chen , Jie Chen

Proper path planning is the first step of robust and efficient autonomous navigation for mobile robots. Meanwhile, it is still challenging for robots to work in a complex environment without complete prior information. This paper presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wenjian Hao , Rongyao Wang , Alexander Krolicki , Yiqiang Han