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We present an analytic solution to the 3D Dubins path problem for paths composed of an initial circular arc, a straight component, and a final circular arc. These are commonly called CSC paths. By modeling the start and goal configurations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Victor M. Baez , Nikhil Navkar , Aaron T. Becker

Path planning is crucial for the efficient operation of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in factory environments. Many existing algorithms rely on Dubins paths, which have been adapted for various applications. However, an efficient method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuanhao Huang , Chao-Bo Yan

This work develops feasible path trajectories for a coordinated strike with multiple aircraft in a constrained environment. Using direct orthogonal collocation methods, the two-point boundary value optimal control problem is transcribed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Michael D. Zollars , David J. Grymin , Isaac E. Weintraub

In this paper, motion planning for a vehicle moving on a unit sphere with unit speed is considered, wherein the desired terminal location is fixed, but the terminal orientation is free. The motion of the vehicle is modeled to be constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Swaroop Darbha , Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam , Dzung Tran , David W. Casbeer

In this paper, motion planning for a Dubins vehicle on a unit sphere to attain a desired final location is considered. The radius of the Dubins path on the sphere is lower bounded by $r$. In a previous study, this problem was addressed,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Swaroop Darbha , Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam , David Casbeer

This paper presents a rapid (real time) solution to the minimum-time path planning problem for Dubins vehicles under environmental currents (wind or ocean currents). Real-time solutions are essential in time-critical situations (such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khushboo Mittal , Junnan Song , Shalabh Gupta , Thomas A. Wettergren

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

In this article, a new model for 3D motion planning, applicable to aerial vehicles, is proposed to connect an initial and final configuration subject to pitch rate and yaw rate constraints. The motion planning problem for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Swaroop Darbha , Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam , David Casbeer

This paper presents a reachability-based approach to finite-time transition problem of nonlinear systems between two stationary points (i.e., the point-to-point steering problem). When the target state is reachable, we prove that a solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Juho Bae , Han-Lim Choi

The quadratic shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path in a directed graph such that the sum of interaction costs over all pairs of arcs on the path is minimized. We derive several semidefinite programming relaxations for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Hao Hu , Renata Sotirov

We consider the simplest optimal control problem with one nonregular mixed inequality constraint, i.e. when its gradient in the control can vanish on the zero surface. Using the Dubovitskii--Milyutin theorem on the approximate separation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 A. V. Dmitruk , N. P. Osmolovskii

This paper investigates the problem of computing a two-dimensional optimal curvature straight line (CS) shortest path for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to intercept a moving target, with both the UAV (pursuer) and target travelling at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Masuda Akter , Mohammed Mustafa Rizvi

Trajectory planning is commonly used as part of a local planner in autonomous driving. This paper considers the problem of planning a continuous-curvature-rate trajectory between fixed start and goal states that minimizes a tunable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Alexander Botros , Stephen L. Smith

This paper addresses the Dubins path planning problem for vehicles in 3D space. In particular, we consider the problem of computing CSC paths -- paths that consist of a circular arc (C) followed by a straight segment (S) followed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ling Xu , Yuliy Baryshnikov , Cynthia Sung

In the present work, control of time-optimal trajectory for a Dubins airplane in presence of moving and fixed obstacles is obtained. We show that for a Dubins airplane with an initial position, the control variable can be obtained using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Z. Fathi , B. Bidabad , M. Najafpour

We study a time minimization problem on the group of motions of a plane with admissible control in a half-disk. The considered control system describes a model of a car that can move forward on a plane and turn in place. Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Alexey Mashtakov

In this article, we consider the motion planning of a rigid object on the unit sphere with a unit speed. The motion of the object is constrained by the maximum absolute value, $U_{max}$ of geodesic curvature of its path; this constrains the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Swaroop Darbha , Athindra Pavan , K. R. Rajagopal , Sivakumar Rathinam , David W. Casbeer , Satyanarayana G. Manyam

We analyze a novel class of rough stochastic control problems that allows for a convenient approach to solving pathwise stochastic control problems with both non-anticipative and anticipative controls. We first establish the well-posedness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Ulrich Horst , Huilin Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new modeling approach and a fast algorithm for 3D motion planning, applicable for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. The goal is to construct the shortest path connecting given initial and final configurations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Swaroop Darbha , Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam , David W. Casbeer

In this study, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving a class of optimal control problems. This class is associated with the minimum-time interception of moving target problems, where a plant with a given state equation must…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Maksim Buzikov