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We interleave sampling based motion planning methods with pruning ideas from minimum spanning tree algorithms to develop a new approach for solving a Multi-Goal Path Finding (MGPF) problem in high dimensional spaces. The approach alternates…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Nikhil Chandak , Kenny Chour , Sivakumar Rathinam , R. Ravi

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

This paper presents an equivalence between feasible kinodynamic planning and optimal kinodynamic planning, in that any optimal planning problem can be transformed into a series of feasible planning problems in a state-cost space whose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Kris Hauser , Yilun Zhou

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minseo Kwon , Young J. Kim

Continuum robots (CR) offer excellent dexterity and compliance in contrast to rigid-link robots, making them suitable for navigating through, and interacting with, confined environments. However, the study of path planning for CRs while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yifan Wang , Yue Chen

Robot motion planning involves computing a sequence of valid robot configurations that take the robot from its initial state to a goal state. Solving a motion planning problem optimally using analytical methods is proven to be PSPACE-Hard.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Naman Shah , Abhyudaya Srinet , Siddharth Srivastava

Space filling designs are central to studying complex systems in various areas of science. They are used for obtaining an overall understanding of the behaviour of the response over the input space, model construction and uncertainty…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-10 Shirin Golchi , Jason L. Loeppky

In this paper we present a novel probabilistic sampling-based motion planning algorithm called the Fast Marching Tree algorithm (FMT*). The algorithm is specifically aimed at solving complex motion planning problems in high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Lucas Janson , Edward Schmerling , Ashley Clark , Marco Pavone

This paper presents a sampling-based method for optimal motion planning in non-holonomic systems in the absence of known cost functions. It uses the principle of learning through experience to deduce the cost-to-go of regions within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nahas Pareekutty , Francis James , Balaraman Ravindran , Suril V. Shah

We consider a simple approach to solving assortment optimization under the random utility maximization model. The approach uses Monte-Carlo simulation to construct a ranking-based choice model that serves as a proxy for the true choice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hassaan Khalid , Bradley Sturt

Autonomous driving vehicles aim to free the hands of vehicle operators, helping them to drive easier and faster, meanwhile, improving the safety of driving on the highway or in complex scenarios. Automated driving systems (ADS) are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yucheng LI

Sampling-based planning is the predominant paradigm for motion planning in robotics. Most sampling-based planners use a global random sampling scheme to guarantee probabilistic completeness. However, most schemes are often inefficient as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tin Lai , Philippe Morere , Fabio Ramos , Gilad Francis

Sampling-based motion planners perform exceptionally well in robotic applications that operate in high-dimensional space. However, most works often constrain the planning workspace rooted at some fixed locations, do not adaptively reason on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tin Lai

Efficiently finding safe and feasible trajectories for mobile objects is a critical field in robotics and computer science. In this paper, we propose SIL-RRT*, a novel learning-based motion planning algorithm that extends the RRT* algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuzhe Dang , Stefan Edelkamp

This paper addresses two challenges facing sampling-based kinodynamic motion planning: a way to identify good candidate states for local transitions and the subsequent computationally intractable steering between these candidate states.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang , Jasmine Hsu , Marek Fiser , Lydia Tapia , Aleksandra Faust

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used for robot motion planning with complex kinodynamic constraints in high-dimensional spaces, yet they struggle to achieve \emph{real-time} performance due to their serial computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nicolas Perrault , Qi Heng Ho , Morteza Lahijanian

Sampling-based planning algorithm is a powerful tool for solving planning problems in high-dimensional state spaces. In this article, we present a novel approach to sampling in the most promising regions, which significantly reduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chenming Li , Fei Meng , Han Ma , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

In this paper, we address a method that integrates reinforcement learning into the Monte Carlo tree search to boost online path planning under fully observable environments for automated parking tasks. Sampling-based planning methods under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xinlong Zheng , Xiaozhou Zhang , Donghao Xu

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

This paper aims to improve the path quality and computational efficiency of kinodynamic planners used for vehicular systems. It proposes a learning framework for identifying promising controls during the expansion process of sampling-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Seth Karten , Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Troy McMahon , Kostas E. Bekris