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Autonomous systems, including robots and drones, face significant challenges when navigating through dynamic environments, particularly within urban settings where obstacles, fluctuating traffic, and pedestrian activity are constantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Daniel Ajeleye

In this report, we try to improve the performance of existing approaches for search operations in multi-robot context. We propose three novel algorithms that are using a triangular grid pattern, i.e., robots certainly go through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Ahmad Baranzadeh

Multi-robot path planning is difficult due to the combinatorial explosion of the search space with every new robot added. Complete search of the combined state-space soon becomes intractable. In this paper we present a novel form of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan

In this paper, we deal with the problem of full-body path planning for walking robots. The state of walking robots is defined in multi-dimensional space. Path planning requires defining the path of the feet and the robot's body. Moreover,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Dominik Belter

Path planning of Robot is one of the challenging fields in the area of Robotics research. In this paper, we proposed a novel algorithm to find path between starting and ending position for an intelligent system. An intelligent system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Tirtharaj Dash , Goutam Mishra , Tanistha Nayak

In this paper, a robot navigating an environment shared with humans is considered, and a cost function that can be exploited in $\text{RRT}^\text{X}$, a randomized sampling-based replanning algorithm that guarantees asymptotic optimality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Basak Sakcak , Luca Bascetta

We consider the Multi-Robot Task Allocation (MRTA) problem that aims to optimize an assignment of multiple robots to multiple tasks in challenging environments which are with densely populated obstacles and narrow passages. In such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Seabin Lee , Joonyeol Sim , Changjoo Nam

We present an approach to task scheduling in heterogeneous multi-robot systems. In our setting, the tasks to complete require diverse skills. We assume that each robot is multi-skilled, i.e., each robot offers a subset of the possible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ashay Aswale , Carlo Pinciroli

Till now, many path planning algorithms have been proposed in the literature. The objective of these algorithms is to find the quickest path between initial position to the end position in a certain environment. The complexity of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vikram Shahapur , Blessing Dixon , Urvishkumar Bharti

Efficient planning in dynamic and uncertain environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics. In the context of trajectory optimization, the feasibility of paths can change as the environment evolves. Therefore, it can be beneficial to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Keshav Kolur , Sahit Chintalapudi , Byron Boots , Mustafa Mukadam

This paper presents a search-based partial motion planner to generate dynamically feasible trajectories for car-like robots in highly dynamic environments. The planner searches for smooth, safe, and near-time-optimal trajectories by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jiahui Lin , Tong Zhou , Delong Zhu , Jianbang Liu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jingchuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jing Li , Xiguang Wei , Wenzhe Tan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hongbo Li

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, the recurrent planning of their configurations introduces new challenges, particularly in generating optimized, coordinated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Loris Schneider , Marc Ungen , Elias Huber , Jan-Felix Klein

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

Coordination of movement and configuration in robotic swarms is a challenging endeavor. Deciding when and where each individual robot must move is a computationally complex problem. The challenge is further exacerbated by difficulties…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Prab Prasertying , Paulo Garcia , Warisa Sritriratanarak

In environments where multiple robots must coordinate in a shared space, decentralized approaches allow for decoupled planning at the cost of global guarantees, while centralized approaches make the opposite trade-off. These solutions make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Claire Liang , Wil Thomason , E. Andy Ricci , Soham Sankaran

Realistic path planning applications often require optimizing with respect to several criteria simultaneously. Here we introduce an efficient algorithm for bi-criteria path planning on graphs. Our approach is based on augmenting the state…

Building structures can allow a robot to surmount large obstacles, expanding the set of areas it can reach. This paper presents a planning algorithm to automatically determine what structures a construction-capable robot must build in order…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Tarik Tosun , Cynthia Sung , Colin McCloskey , Mark Yim

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