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This paper presents a novel method for accelerating path planning tasks in unknown scenes with obstacles by utilizing Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with Gradient Penalty (GP) to approximate the distribution of the free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Jorge Ocampo Jimenez , Wael Suleiman

In this paper, we present a novel path planning algorithm to achieve fast path planning in complex environments. Most existing path planning algorithms are difficult to quickly find a feasible path in complex environments or even fail.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jianbang Liu , Baopu Li , Tingguang Li , Wenzheng Chi , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

The motion planning problem of generating dynamically feasible, collision-free trajectories in non-convex environments is a fundamental challenge for autonomous systems. Decomposing the problem into path planning and path tracking improves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Shu Zhang , James Y. Z. Liu , Dominic Liao-McPherson

This paper presents a novel method for accelerating path-planning tasks in unknown scenes with obstacles by utilizing Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with Gradient Penalty (GP) to approximate the distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jorge Ocampo Jimenez , Wael Suleiman

Graph classification is a fundamental but challenging issue for numerous real-world applications. Despite recent great progress in image/video classification, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) cannot yet cater to graphs well because of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Jiatao Jiang , Chunyan Xu , Zhen Cui , Tong Zhang , Wenming Zheng , Jian Yang

Autonomous agents face the challenge of coordinating multiple tasks (perception, motion planning, controller) which are computationally expensive on a single onboard computer. To utilize the onboard processing capacity optimally, it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Aditya Shirwatkar , Aman Singh , Jana Ravi Kiran

Soft robots have the potential to interact with sensitive environments and perform complex tasks effectively. However, motion plans and trajectories for soft manipulators are challenging to calculate due to their deformable nature and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Akua Dickson , Juan C. Pacheco Garcia , Ran Jing , Meredith L. Anderson , Andrew P. Sabelhaus

Formation flight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses significant challenges in terms of safety and formation keeping, particularly in cluttered environments. However, existing methods often struggle to simultaneously satisfy these two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Qingzhao Liu , Bailing Tian , Xuewei Zhang , Junjie Lu , Zhiyu Li

Computing a (short) path between two vertices is one of the most fundamental primitives in graph algorithmics. In recent years, the study of paths in temporal graphs, that is, graphs where the vertex set is fixed but the edge set changes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Arnaud Casteigts , Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Philipp Zschoche

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

To assist game developers in crafting game NPCs, we present EvolvingBehavior, a novel tool for genetic programming to evolve behavior trees in Unreal Engine 4. In an initial evaluation, we compare evolved behavior to hand-crafted trees…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Nathan Partlan , Luis Soto , Jim Howe , Sarthak Shrivastava , Magy Seif El-Nasr , Stacy Marsella

Character animation in real-world scenarios necessitates a variety of constraints, such as trajectories, key-frames, interactions, etc. Existing methodologies typically treat single or a finite set of these constraint(s) as separate control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanchao Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Shaoli Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ying Shan

Skew Dyck paths are like Dyck paths, but an additional south-west step $(-1,-1)$ is allowed, provided that the path does not intersect itself. Lattice paths with catastrophes can drop from any level to the origin in just one step. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Helmut Prodinger

We present a method to generate a video sequence given a single image. Because items in an image can be animated in arbitrarily many different ways, we introduce as control signal a sequence of motion strokes. Such control signal can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiyang Hu , Adrian Wälchli , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

We present a sample-based motion planning algorithm specialised to a class of underactuated systems using path parameterisation. The structure this class presents under a path parameterisation enables the trivial computation of dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Damian Abood , Ian R. Manchester

We introduce a new method of generating Computer Aided Design (CAD) profiles via a sequence of simple geometric constructions including curve offsetting, rotations and intersections. These sequences start with geometry provided by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Siyi Li , Joseph G. Lambourne , Longfei Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Karl. D. D. Willis

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

Feedback motion planning over cell decompositions provides a robust method for generating collision-free robot motion with formal guarantees. However, existing algorithms often produce paths with unnecessary bending, leading to slower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aref Amiri , Steven M. LaValle

Although a wide variety of handcrafted concurrent data structures have been proposed, there is considerable interest in universal approaches (henceforth called Universal Constructions or UCs) for building concurrent data structures. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Ilya Kokorin , Alexander Fedorov , Trevor Brown , Vitaly Aksenov