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We study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning on graphs MPP over four distinct minimization objectives: the makespan (last arrival time), the maximum (single-robot traveled) distance, the total arrival time, and the total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

We study the problem of sequential task assignment and collision-free routing for large teams of robots in applications with inter-task precedence constraints (e.g., task $A$ and task $B$ must both be completed before task $C$ may begin).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Kyle Brown , Oriana Peltzer , Martin A. Sehr , Mac Schwager , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Traditional multi-robot motion planning (MMP) focuses on computing trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, such that the robots do not collide when the trajectories are taken simultaneously. In safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

Robotic systems must be able to quickly and robustly make decisions when operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) can be used to compute optimal policies with little prior knowledge about the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yunpeng Pan , Xinyan Yan , Evangelos Theodorou , Byron Boots

In this paper a search algorithm is proposed to find a sub optimal path for a non-holonomic system. For this purpose the algorithm starts sampling the front part of the vehicle and moves towards the destination with a cost function. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Mahdi Morsali , Fatemeh Mohseni

In this paper we develop optimal algorithms in the binary-forking model for a variety of fundamental problems, including sorting, semisorting, list ranking, tree contraction, range minima, and ordered set union, intersection and difference.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Guy E. Blelloch , Jeremy T. Fineman , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Adaptive sampling and planning in robotic environmental monitoring are challenging when the target environmental process varies over space and time. The underlying environmental dynamics require the planning module to integrate future…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Weizhe Chen , Lantao Liu

In this paper, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm that finds an infinite path satisfying a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties satisfied by some regions in a given environment. The algorithm has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Cristian Ioan Vasile , Calin Belta

Time-varying optimization is fundamental to decision-making in dynamic environments, where objectives evolve over time due to exogenous signals or data streams. However, algorithms designed for static problems yield suboptimal decisions in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bryan Van Scoy , Gianluca Bianchin

The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use of autonomous robot systems to automate tasks in the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christian Friedrich , Akos Csiszar , Armin Lechler , Alexander Verl

This paper considers optimal control of dynamical systems which are represented by nonlinear stochastic differential equations. It is well-known that the optimal control policy for this problem can be obtained as a function of a value…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Oktay Arslan , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper investigates a fully distributed cooperation scheme for networked mobile manipulators. To achieve cooperative task allocation in a distributed way, an adaptation-based estimation law is established for each robotic agent to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yi Ren , Sandra Hirche

Robots operate under significant uncertainty, from quantifiable noise to unquantifiable unknowns, and must account for strict operational constraints, such as limited resources. In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yihao Yin , Pian Yu , Andrea Turrini , Zhiming Chi , Yong Li , Lijun Zhang

Shared training approaches, such as multi-task learning (MTL) and gradient-based meta-learning, are widely used in various machine learning applications, but they often suffer from negative transfer, leading to performance degradation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anshul Thakur , Yichen Huang , Soheila Molaei , Yujiang Wang , David A. Clifton

This paper considers multi-goal motion planning in unstructured, obstacle-rich environments where a robot is required to reach multiple regions while avoiding collisions. The planned motions must also satisfy the differential constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku

In this paper, we investigate the combination of synthesis, model-based learning, and online sampling techniques to obtain safe and near-optimal schedulers for a preemptible task scheduling problem. Our algorithms can handle Markov decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Damien Busatto-Gaston , Debraj Chakraborty , Shibashis Guha , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

Robots performing manipulation tasks must operate under uncertainty about both their pose and the dynamics of the system. In order to remain robust to modeling error and shifts in payload dynamics, agents must simultaneously perform…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Patrick Slade , Preston Culbertson , Zachary Sunberg , Mykel Kochenderfer

In many multirobot applications, planning trajectories in a way to guarantee that the collective behavior of the robots satisfies a certain high-level specification is crucial. Motivated by this problem, we introduce counting temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Yunus Emre Sahin , Petter Nilsson , Necmiye Ozay

We formalize synthesis of shared control protocols with correctness guarantees for temporal logic specifications. More specifically, we introduce a modeling formalism in which both a human and an autonomy protocol can issue commands to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Nils Jansen , Murat Cubuktepe , Ufuk Topcu