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Mobile robots dedicated in security tasks should be capable of clearly perceiving their environment to competently navigate within cluttered areas, so as to accomplish their assigned mission. The paper in hand describes such an autonomous…

The operational environments in which a mobile robot executes its missions often exhibit non-flat terrain characteristics, encompassing outdoor and indoor settings featuring ramps and slopes. In such scenarios, the conventional…

We consider the problem of autonomous mobile robot exploration in an unknown environment, taking into account a robot's coverage rate, map uncertainty, and state estimation uncertainty. This paper presents a novel exploration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Yewei Huang , John McConnell , Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

Autonomous navigation in unknown 3D environments is a key issue for intelligent transportation, while still being an open problem. Conventionally, navigation risk has been focused on mitigating collisions with obstacles, neglecting the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Elie Randriamiarintsoa , Johann Laconte , Benoit Thuilot , Romuald Aufrère

This paper addresses the problem of mobile grasping in dynamic, unknown environments where a robot must operate under a limited field-of-view. The fundamental challenge is the inherent trade-off between ``seeing'' around to reduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianrun Hu , Anxing Xiao , David Hsu , Hanbo Zhang

Mapping is a time-consuming process for deploying robotic systems to new environments. The handling of maps is also risk-adverse when not managed effectively. We propose here, a standardised approach to handling such maps in a manner which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 James R. Heselden , Gautham P. Das

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

Safe and high-speed navigation is a key enabling capability for real world deployment of robotic systems. A significant limitation of existing approaches is the computational bottleneck associated with explicit mapping and the limited field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kapil D. Katyal , Adam Polevoy , Joseph Moore , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek

Scalable and maintainable map representations are fundamental to enabling large-scale visual navigation and facilitating the deployment of robots in real-world environments. While collaborative localization across multi-session mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianhao Jiao , Changkun Liu , Jingwen Yu , Boyi Liu , Qianyi Zhang , Yue Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Safe robot navigation is a fundamental research field for autonomous robots including ground mobile robots and flying robots. The primary objective of a safe robot navigation algorithm is to guide an autonomous robot from its initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Hang Li

One of the most challenging tasks for a flying robot is to autonomously navigate between target locations quickly and reliably while avoiding obstacles in its path, and with little to no a-priori knowledge of the operating environment. This…

Autonomous navigation is an essential capability of smart mobility for mobile robots. Traditional methods must have the environment map to plan a collision-free path in workspace. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Liulong Ma , Yanjie Liu , Jiao Chen , Dong Jin

Mobile robotics is a research area that has witnessed incredible advances for the last decades. Robot navigation is an essential task for mobile robots. Many methods are proposed for allowing robots to navigate within different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Omar Mohamed , Zeyad Mohsen , Mohamed Wageeh , Mohamed Hegazy

We propose a robotic learning system for autonomous exploration and navigation in unexplored environments. We are motivated by the idea that even an unseen environment may be familiar from previous experiences in similar environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Huangying Zhan , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ian Reid

Autonomous aerial robots are increasingly being deployed in real-world scenarios, where transparent glass obstacles present significant challenges to reliable navigation. Researchers have investigated the use of non-contact sensors and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Xinyi Chen , Yichen Zhang , Hetai Zou , Junzhe Wang , Shaojie Shen

The growing use of mobile robots in sectors such as automotive, agriculture, and rescue operations reflects progress in robotics and autonomy. In unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), most research emphasizes visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jingwen Wei

Mapping and navigation have gone hand-in-hand since long before robots existed. Maps are a key form of communication, allowing someone who has never been somewhere to nonetheless navigate that area successfully. In the context of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ian D. Miller , Fernando Cladera , Trey Smith , Camillo Jose Taylor , Vijay Kumar

Quadruped robots have the distinct ability to adapt their body and step height to navigate through cluttered environments. Nonetheless, for these robots to utilize their full potential in real-world scenarios, they require awareness of…

The rapid development of robotics has benefited by more and more people putting their attention to it. With the demand for robots is growing for the purpose of fulfilling tasks instead of humans, how to control the robot better is becoming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Yang Zhang

An autonomous indoor aerial vehicle requires reliable simul- taneous localization and mapping (SLAM), accurate flight control, and robust path planning for navigation. This paper presents a system level combination of these existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Lachlan Dowling , Tomas Poblete , Isaac Hook , Hao Tang , Ying Tan , Will Glenn , Ranjith R Unnithan