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Human awareness in robot motion planning is crucial for seamless interaction with humans. Many existing techniques slow down, stop, or change the robot's trajectory locally to avoid collisions with humans. Although using the information on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Marco Faroni , Manuel Beschi , Nicola Pedrocchi

Path planning has long been one of the major research areas in robotics, with PRM and RRT being two of the most effective classes of planners. Though generally very efficient, these sampling-based planners can become computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sipu Ruan , Karen L. Poblete , Hongtao Wu , Qianli Ma , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Time-optimal path tracking, as a significant tool for industrial robots, has attracted the attention of numerous researchers. In most time-optimal path tracking problems, the actuator torque constraints are assumed to be conservative, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Jiadong Xiao , Lin Li , Yanbiao Zou , Tie Zhang

Many robot arms can accomplish one task using many different joint configurations. Often only one of these configurations is used as a goal by the path planner. Ideally the robot's path planner would be able to use the extra configurations…

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

Autonomous exploration requires robots to generate informative trajectories iteratively. Although sampling-based methods are highly efficient in unmanned aerial vehicle exploration, many of these methods do not effectively utilize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhefan Xu , Di Deng , Kenji Shimada

As mobile robots find increasing use in outdoor applications, designing energy-efficient robot navigation algorithms is gaining importance. There are two primary approaches to energy efficient navigation: Offline approaches rely on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Minghan Wei , Volkan Isler

We study the path planning problem for continuum-arm robots, in which we are given a starting and an end point, and we need to compute a path for the tip of the continuum arm between the two points. We consider both cases where obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Jiahao Deng , Brandon H. Meng , Iyad Kanj , Isuru S. Godage

We present a novel approach to path planning for robotic manipulators, in which paths are produced via iterative optimisation in the latent space of a generative model of robot poses. Constraints are incorporated through the use of…

Visual observation of objects is essential for many robotic applications, such as object reconstruction and manipulation, navigation, and scene understanding. Machine learning algorithms constitute the state-of-the-art in many fields but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Heiko Renz , Maximilian Krämer , Frank Hoffmann , Torsten Bertram

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

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

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K

Multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle is a prevailing type of aerial robots with wide real-world applications. The energy efficiency of the robot is a critical aspect of its performance, determining the range and duration of the missions that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Nicolas Michel , Ayush Patnaik , Zhaodan Kong , Xinfan Lin

Walking motion planning based on Divergent Component of Motion (DCM) and Linear Inverted Pendulum Model (LIPM) is one of the alternatives that could be implemented to generate online humanoid robot gait trajectories. This algorithm requires…

In this work we introduce an implementation for which machine learning techniques helped improve the overall performance of an evolutionary algorithm for an optimization problem, namely a variation of robust minimum-cost path in graphs. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Ricardo Di Pasquale , Javier Marenco

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in modern transport systems has made energy-aware routing a critical task in their successful integration, especially within large-scale transport networks. In cases where an EV's remaining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Saman Ahmadi , Guido Tack , Daniel Harabor , Philip Kilby , Mahdi Jalili

In robotic deformable object manipulation (DOM) applications, constraints arise commonly from environments and task-specific requirements. Enabling DOM with constraints is therefore crucial for its deployment in practice. However, dealing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jing Huang , Xiangyu Chu , Xin Ma , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

This paper explores the possibility of improving bilateral robot manipulation task performance through optimizing the robot morphology and configuration of the system through motion. To optimize the design for different scenarios, we select…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Lasitha Wijayarathne , Juan Vallejo , Anthony Barnum , Zachary Cloutier , Frank L. Hammond

Soft robots are well suited for contact-rich tasks due to their compliance, yet this property makes accurate and tractable modeling challenging. Planning motions with dynamically-feasible trajectories requires models that capture arbitrary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Beibei Liu , Akua K. Dickson , Ran Jing , Andrew P. Sabelhaus

Path planning for mobile robots in large dynamic environments is a challenging problem, as the robots are required to efficiently reach their given goals while simultaneously avoiding potential conflicts with other robots or dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Binyu Wang , Zhe Liu , Qingbiao Li , Amanda Prorok