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Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui

Path planning is an active area of research essential for many applications in robotics. Popular techniques include graph-based searches and sampling-based planners. These approaches are powerful but have limitations. This paper continues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

Sampling-based algorithms for robot path planning offer probabilistic completeness and strong empirical convergence properties across environments with diverse obstacle configurations. However, in practice, these methods often require many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui , Bara J. Emran

Informative path planning is an important and challenging problem in robotics that remains to be solved in a manner that allows for wide-spread implementation and real-world practical adoption. Among various reasons for this, one is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Brady Moon , Satrajit Chatterjee , Sebastian Scherer

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

Sampling-based motion planners rely on incremental densification to discover progressively shorter paths. After computing feasible path $\xi$ between start $x_s$ and goal $x_t$, the Informed Set (IS) prunes the configuration space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Aditya Mandalika , Rosario Scalise , Brian Hou , Sanjiban Choudhury , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

In path planning, anytime almost-surely asymptotically optimal planners dominate the benchmark of sampling-based planners. A notable example is Batch Informed Trees (BIT*), where planners iteratively determine paths to batches of vertices…

Sampling-based motion planners such as Rapidly-exploring Random Tree* (RRT*) and its informed variant IRRT* are widely used for optimal path planning in complex environments. However, these methods often suffer from slow convergence and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hyejeong Ryu

Motion planning problems have been studied by both the robotics and the controls research communities for a long time, and many algorithms have been developed for their solution. Among them, incremental sampling-based motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Oktay Arslan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We present Lower Bound Tree-RRT (LBT-RRT), a single-query sampling-based algorithm that is asymptotically near-optimal. Namely, the solution extracted from LBT-RRT converges to a solution that is within an approximation factor of 1+epsilon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be very efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-03 Nicolas A. Barriga , Mauricio Araya-López , Mauricio Solar

Over the last 20 years significant effort has been dedicated to the development of sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its asymptotically optimal version (e.g. RRT*). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georgios Papadopoulos , Hanna Kurniawati , Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

We introduce a simple yet effective sampling-based planner that is tailored for bottleneck pathfinding: Given an implicitly-defined cost map $\mathcal{M}:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, which assigns to every point in space a real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Kiril Solovey , Dan Halperin

We consider a path-planning scenario for a mobile robot traveling in a configuration space with obstacles under the presence of stochastic disturbances. A novel path length metric is proposed on the uncertain configuration space and then…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Jeb Stefan , Ali Reza Pedram , Riku Funada , Takashi Tanaka

RRT* is one of the most widely used sampling-based algorithms for asymptotically-optimal motion planning. This algorithm laid the foundations for optimality in motion planning as a whole, and inspired the development of numerous new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Kiril Solovey , Lucas Janson , Edward Schmerling , Emilio Frazzoli , Marco Pavone

Probabilistic sampling-based algorithms, such as the probabilistic roadmap (PRM) and the rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) algorithms, represent one of the most successful approaches to robotic motion planning, due to their strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Lucas Janson , Brian Ichter , Marco Pavone

In this work, we present a novel sampling-based path planning method, called SPRINT. The method finds solutions for high dimensional path planning problems quickly and robustly. Its efficiency comes from minimizing the number of collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Daniel Rakita , Bilge Mutlu , Michael Gleicher

This paper extends the RRT* algorithm, a recently developed but widely-used sampling-based optimal motion planner, in order to effectively handle nonlinear kinodynamic constraints. Nonlinearity in kinodynamic differential constraints often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi , Jeong hwan Jeon

Path planning has long been an important and active research area in robotics. To address challenges in high-dimensional motion planning, this study introduces the Force Direction Informed Trees (FDIT*), a sampling-based planner designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Liding Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Yu Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Lingyun Chen , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

During the last decade, incremental sampling-based motion planning algorithms, such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been shown to work well in practice and to possess theoretical guarantees such as probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-05-05 Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli