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Real-time and collision-free motion planning remains challenging for robotic manipulation in unknown environments due to continuous perception updates and the need for frequent online replanning. To address these challenges, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xuewei Zhang , Bailing Tian , Kai Zheng , Yulin Hui , Junjie Lu , Zhiyu Li

In this paper, we introduce a method to deal with the problem of robot local path planning among pushable objects -- an open problem in robotics. In particular, we achieve that by training multiple agents simultaneously in a physics-based…

This paper introduces SmartBSP, an advanced self-supervised learning framework for real-time path planning and obstacle avoidance in autonomous robotics navigating through complex environments. The proposed system integrates Proximal Policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shahab Shokouhi , Oguzhan Oruc , May-Win Thein

Trajectory generation in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge for quadrotors, particularly due to the non-convexity in the spatial-temporal domain. Many existing methods either assume simplified static environments or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Songhao Huang , Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

This paper investigates the problem of informative path planning for a mobile robotic sensor network in spatially temporally distributed mapping. The robots are able to gather noisy measurements from an area of interest during their…

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

Path planning for a robot is one of the major problems in the area of robotics. When a robot is given a task in the form of a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification such that the task needs to be carried out repetitively, we want the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priya Purohit , Indranil Saha

Planning collision-free motions for robots with many degrees of freedom is challenging in environments with complex obstacle geometries. Recent work introduced the idea of speeding up the planning by encoding prior experience of successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Johannes Tenhumberg , Darius Burschka , Berthold Bäuml

We investigate the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in the presence of other moving vehicles under time-varying uncertain environmental disturbances. We first predict the future state distributions of other vehicles to account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Junhong Xu , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

Robot swarm is a hot spot in robotic research community. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework for car-like robotic swarm which is capable of real-time planning in cluttered environments. In this system, path finding is guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Changjia Ma , Zhichao Han , Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

We present an optimization-based method to plan the motion of an autonomous robot under the uncertainties associated with dynamic obstacles, such as humans. Our method bounds the marginal risk of collisions at each point in time by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 O. de Groot , B. Brito , L. Ferranti , D. Gavrila , J. Alonso-Mora

Motion planning in off-road environments requires reasoning about both the geometry and semantics of the scene (e.g., a robot may be able to drive through soft bushes but not a fallen log). In many recent works, the world is classified into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Xiaoyi Cai , Michael Everett , Jonathan Fink , Jonathan P. How

We present a motion planner for planning through space-time with dynamic obstacles, velocity constraints, and unknown arrival time. Our algorithm, Space-Time RRT* (ST-RRT*), is a probabilistically complete, bidirectional motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Francesco Grothe , Valentin N. Hartmann , Andreas Orthey , Marc Toussaint

This paper proposes a decentralized trajectory planning framework for the collision avoidance problem of multiple micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) in environments with static and dynamic obstacles. The framework utilizes spatiotemporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Siyuan Wu , Gang Chen , Moji Shi , Javier Alonso-Mora

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 propose a novel approach for sampling-based and control-based motion planning that combines a representation of the environment obtained via a modified version of optimal Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT*), with landmark-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mahroo Bahreinian , Marc Mitjans , Roberto Tron

In this paper we present distributed and adaptive algorithms for motion coordination of a group of m autonomous vehicles. The vehicles operate in a convex environment with bounded velocity and must service demands whose time of arrival,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Marco Pavone , Emilio Frazzoli , Francesco Bullo

Continuum robots, characterized by their high flexibility and infinite degrees of freedom (DoFs), have gained prominence in applications such as minimally invasive surgery and hazardous environment exploration. However, the intrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Peiyu Luo , Shilong Yao , Yiyao Yue , Jiankun Wang , Hong Yan , Max Q. -H. Meng

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

In this work, we propose a novel adaptive grid mapping approach, the Adaptive Patched Grid Map, which enables a situational aware grid based perception for autonomous vehicles. Its structure allows a flexible representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Thomas Wodtko , Thomas Griebel , Michael Buchholz