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The ability to plan informative paths online is essential to robot autonomy. In particular, sampling-based approaches are often used as they are capable of using arbitrary information gain formulations. However, they are prone to local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Lukas Schmid , Michael Pantic , Raghav Khanna , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

We investigate the sampling-based optimal path planning problem for robotics in complex and dynamic environments. Most existing sampling-based algorithms neglect environmental information or the information from previous samples. Yet, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mingyang Feng , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

The paper introduces an asymptotically optimal lifelong sampling-based path planning algorithm that combines the merits of lifelong planning algorithms and lazy search algorithms for rapid replanning in dynamic environments where edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lu Huang , Jingwen Yu , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

Essential tasks in autonomous driving includes environment perception, detection and tracking, path planning and action control. This paper focus on path planning, which is one of the challenging task as it needs to find optimal path in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sugirtha T , Pranav S , Nitin Benjamin Dasiah , Sridevi M

Many robots operating in unpredictable environments require an online path planning algorithm that can quickly compute high quality paths. Asymptotically optimal planners are capable of finding the optimal path, but can be slow to converge.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Scott Paulin , Tom Botterill , XiaoQi Chen , Richard Green

RRT* is an efficient sampling-based motion planning algorithm. However, without taking advantages of accessible environment information, sampling-based algorithms usually result in sampling failures, generate useless nodes, and/or fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenxi Feng , Haochen Wu

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as RRT* are well-known for their ability to quickly find an initial solution and then converge to the optimal solution asymptotically. However, the convergence rate can be slow for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongliang Zheng , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Sampling-based algorithms are viewed as practical solutions for high-dimensional motion planning. Recent progress has taken advantage of random geometric graph theory to show how asymptotic optimality can also be achieved with these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Yanbo Li , Zakary Littlefield , Kostas E. Bekris

With the pervasiveness of Stochastic Shortest-Path (SSP) problems in high-risk industries, such as last-mile autonomous delivery and supply chain management, robust planning algorithms are crucial for ensuring successful task completion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Clinton Enwerem , Erfaun Noorani , John S. Baras , Brian M. Sadler

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star(RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacle's geometry in a given environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Asymptotically optimal sampling-based planners require an intelligent exploration strategy to accelerate convergence. After an initial solution is found, a necessary condition for improvement is to generate new samples in the so-called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sagar Suhas Joshi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

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

An asymptotically optimal sampling-based planner employs sampling to solve robot motion planning problems and returns paths with a cost that converges to the optimal solution cost, as the number of samples approaches infinity. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kostas E. Bekris , Rahul Shome

In this paper, we develop a non-uniform sampling approach for fast and efficient path planning of autonomous vehicles. The approach uses a novel non-uniform partitioning scheme that divides the area into obstacle-free convex cells. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 James P. Wilson , Zongyuan Shen , Shalabh Gupta

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and constraints. It is often desirable for this path to also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan D. Gammell , Marlin P. Strub

We propose a novel approach for sampling-based and control-based motion planning that combines a representation of the environment obtained via a modified version of optimal Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT*), with landmark-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mahroo Bahreinian , Marc Mitjans , Roberto Tron

Path planning is typically considered in Artificial Intelligence as a graph searching problem and R* is state-of-the-art algorithm tailored to solve it. The algorithm decomposes given path finding task into the series of subtasks each of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Konstantin Yakovlev , Egor Baskin , Ivan Hramoin

The sampling based motion planning algorithm known as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) has gained the attention of many researchers due to their computational efficiency and effectiveness. Recently, a variant of RRT called RRT* has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Despite the performance advantages of modern sampling-based motion planners, solving high dimensional planning problems in near real-time remains a challenge. Applications include hyper-redundant manipulators, snake-like and humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marios P. Xanthidis , Joel M. Esposito , Ioannis Rekleitis , Jason M. O'Kane

We present Kinodynamic RRT*, an incremental sampling-based approach for asymptotically optimal motion planning for robots with linear differential constraints. Our approach extends RRT*, which was introduced for holonomic robots (Karaman et…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-24 Dustin J. Webb , Jur van den Berg