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Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Path planning in complex environments is one of the key problems of artificial intelligence because it requires simultaneous understanding of the geometry of space and the global structure of the problem. In this paper, we explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Michał Wieczorek

This study introduces an algorithm that generates undirected graphs with three main characteristics of real-world networks: scale-freeness, short distances between nodes (small-world phenomenon), and large clustering coefficients. The main…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 João Pedro C. Morais , Ruben Interian

Trajectory- or path-planning is a fundamental issue in a wide variety of applications. Here we show that it is possible to solve path planning for multiple start- and end-points highly efficiently with a network that consists only of max…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Tomas Kulvicius , Sebastian Herzog , Minija Tamosiunaite , Florentin Wörgötter

The mechanism behind the generation of human movements is of great interest in many fields (e.g. robotics and neuroscience) to improve therapies and technologies. Optimal Feedback Control (OFC) and Passive Motion Paradigm (PMP) are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Carlo Tiseo , Sydney Rebecca Charitos , Michael Mistry

We present a novel algorithm that generates scale free small world graphs such as those found in the World Wide Web,social and metabolic networks. We use the generated graphs to study the dynamics of a realistic search strategy on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Amit R Puniyani , Rajan M Lukose , Bernardo A Huberman

We present an algorithm for combining natural language processing (NLP) and fast robot motion planning to automatically generate robot movements. Our formulation uses a novel concept called Dynamic Constraint Mapping to transform complex,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jae Sung Park , Biao Jia , Mohit Bansal , Dinesh Manocha

We present in this paper several improvements for computing shortest path maps using OpenGL shaders. The approach explores GPU rasterization as a way to propagate optimal costs on a polygonal 2D environment, producing shortest path maps…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Renato Farias , Marcelo Kallmann

Even if path planning can be solved using standard techniques from dynamic programming and control, the problem can also be approached using probabilistic inference. The algorithms that emerge using the latter framework bear some appealing…

There is extensive literature on perceiving road structures by fusing various sensor inputs such as lidar point clouds and camera images using deep neural nets. Leveraging the latest advance of neural architects (such as transformers) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenchao Ding , Jieru Zhao , Yubin Chu , Haihui Huang , Tong Qin , Chunjing Xu , Yuxiang Guan , Zhongxue Gan

The paper investigates the problem of path planning techniques for multi-copter uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) cooperation in a formation shape to examine surrounding surfaces. We first describe the problem as a joint objective cost for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Van Truong Hoang

The ability to update a path plan is a required capability for autonomous mobile robots navigating through uncertain environments. This paper proposes a re-planning strategy using a multilayer planning and control framework for cases where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Joshua A. Robbins , Stephen J. Harnett , Andrew F. Thompson , Sean Brennan , Herschel C. Pangborn

Fast accumulation of large amounts of complex data has created a need for more sophisticated statistical methodologies to discover interesting patterns and better extract information from these data. The large scale of the data often…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-09 Yuliya Marchetti , Qing Zhou

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

One of the most efficient ways of generating goal-directed walking motions is synthesising the final motion based on footprints. Nevertheless, current implementations have not examined the generation of continuous motion based on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Christos Mousas , Paul Newbury , Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos

This study presents a new framework for vehicle motion planning and control based on the automatic generation of model predictive controllers (MPCs) named MPC Builder. In this framework, several components necessary for MPC, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kohei Honda , Hiroyuki Okuda , Tatsuya Suzuki , Akira Ito

The path tracing method generates incoherent rays by randomly sampling directions. This randomness makes it unsuitable for modern processor architectures that rely on coherence to achieve optimal performance. Many efforts have been made to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Fengqi Liu , Zaonan Tan , Weilai Xiang , Chenhao Lu , Dan Li , Xu Gong , Yulong Shi , Songnan Shi , Qilong Kou , Bo Hu

We present a method to map the evolution of photonic random walks that is compatible with nonclassical input light. Our approach leverages a newly developed flexible waveguide platform to tune the jumping rate between spatial modes,…

This article focuses on integrating path-planning and control with specializing on the unique needs of robotic unicycles. A unicycle design is presented which is capable of accelerating/breaking and carrying out a variety of maneuvers. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Máté B. Vizi , Dénes Tákács , Gábor Stépán , Gábor Orosz

In this work, we present a new algorithm for generating quantum circuits that efficiently implement continuous time quantum walks on arbitrary simple sparse graphs. The algorithm, called matching decomposition, works by decomposing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Mostafa Atallah , Alvin Gonzales , Daniel Dilley , Igor Gaidai , Zain H. Saleem , Rebekah Herrman