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Robotic systems are routinely used in the logistics industry to enhance operational efficiency, but the design of robot workspaces remains a complex and manual task, which limits the system's flexibility to changing demands. This paper aims…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Peiyu Zeng , Yijiang Huang , Simon Huber , Stelian Coros

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

Robots are becoming an increasingly common part of scientific work within laboratory environments. In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing \emph{schedules} for completing a set of tasks at fixed locations with multiple robots…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Duncan Adamson , Nathan Flaherty , Igor Potapov , Paul Spirakis

In Coordinated Motion Planning (CMP), we are given a rectangular-grid on which $k$ robots occupy $k$ distinct starting gridpoints and need to reach $k$ distinct destination gridpoints. In each time step, any robot may move to a neighboring…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj

The pebble-motion on graphs is a subcategory of multi-agent pathfinding problems dealing with moving multiple pebble-like objects from a node to a node in a graph with a constraint that only one pebble can occupy one node at a given time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Miroslav Kulich , Tomáš Novák , Libor Přeucil

Planning of any motion starts by planning the trajectory of the CoM. It is of the highest importance to ensure that the robot will be able to perform planned trajectory. With increasing capabilities of the humanoid robots, the case when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Milutin Nikolić , Branislav Borovac , Mirko Raković , Milica Žigić

Object rearrangement is a fundamental problem in robotics with various practical applications ranging from managing warehouses to cleaning and organizing home kitchens. While existing research has primarily focused on single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Vivek Gupta , Praphpreet Dhir , Jeegn Dani , Ahmed H. Qureshi

For robots to successfully execute tasks assigned to them, they must be capable of planning the right sequence of actions. These actions must be both optimal with respect to a specified objective and satisfy whatever constraints exist in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Alphonsus Adu-Bredu , Nikhil Devraj , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

This paper develops an algorithm that guides a multi-robot system in an unknown environment in search of fixed targets. The area to be scanned contains an unknown number of convex obstacles of unknown size and shape. The algorithm covers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Jonathan Rogge , Dirk Aeyels

We describe parametrised motion planning algorithms for systems controlling objects represented by points that move without collisions in an even dimensional Euclidean space and in the presence of up to three obstacles with \emph{a priori}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata , Jesús González

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

The aim of coordinated planning is to avoid robot-to-robot collisions in a multi-robot system, and there are two standard solution approaches: centralized planning and decoupled planning. Our first contribution is a decoupled planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jonas Wittmann , Franziska Ochsenfarth , Valentin Sonneville , Daniel Rixen

In this paper, we look into the minimum obstacle displacement (MOD) planning problem from a mobile robot motion planning perspective. This problem finds an optimal path to goal by displacing movable obstacles when no path exists due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Antony Thomas , Giulio Ferro , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Michela Robba

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

This paper presents a method for constrained motion planning from vision, which enables a robot to move its end-effector over an observed surface, given start and destination points. The robot has no prior knowledge of the surface shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 T. Pardi , V. Ortenzi , C. Fairbairn , T. Pipe , A. M. Ghalamzan E. , R. Stolkin

In this paper, we present a method of multi-robot motion planning by biasing centralized, sampling-based tree search with decentralized, data-driven steer and distance heuristics. Over a range of robot and obstacle densities, we evaluate…

Algorithms for motion planning in unknown environments are generally limited in their ability to reason about the structure of the unobserved environment. As such, current methods generally navigate unknown environments by relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Amine Elhafsi , Boris Ivanovic , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

In this work, we present an approach to planning for humanoid mobility. Humanoid mobility is a challenging problem, as the configuration space for a humanoid robot is intractably large, especially if the robot is capable of performing many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Andrew Dornbush , Karthik Vijayakumar , Sameer Bardapurkar , Fahad Islam , Maxim Likhachev

This paper presents a coordination algorithm for mobile autonomous robots. Relying upon distributed sensing the robots achieve rendezvous, that is, they move to a common location. Each robot is a point mass moving in a nonconvex environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anurag Ganguli , Jorge Cortes , Francesco Bullo

We consider the motion planning problem for a point constrained to move along a smooth closed convex path of bounded curvature. The workspace of the moving point is bounded by a convex polygon with m vertices, containing an obstacle in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Jurek Czyzowicz , Olivier Devillers , Jean-Marc Robert , Mariette Yvinec