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Autonomous navigation has played an increasingly significant role in quadruped robot system. However, most existing works on quadruped robots navigation using traditional search-based or sample-based methods do not consider the kinodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Pei Wang , Xiaoyu Zhou , Qingteng Zhao , Jun Wu , Qiuguo Zhu

This paper presents a new trajectory planning method for multiple quadrotors in obstacle-dense environments. We suggest a relative safe flight corridor (RSFC) to model safe region between a pair of agents, and it is used to generate linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Jungwon Park , H. Jin Kim

This paper presents a smooth trajectory generation method for a four-degree-of-freedom parallel kinematic milling robot. The proposed approach integrates B-spline and Quaternion interpolation techniques to manage decoupled position and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sina Akhbari , Mehran Mahboubkhah

We propose an algorithm for generating minimum-snap trajectories for quadrotors with linear computational complexity with respect to the number of segments in the spline trajectory. Our algorithm is numerically stable for large numbers of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Declan Burke , Airlie Chapman , Iman Shames

Quadrotors can provide services such as infrastructure inspection and search-and-rescue, which require operating autonomously in cluttered environments. Autonomy is typically achieved with receding-horizon planning, where a short plan is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Shreyas Kousik , Patrick Holmes , Ramanarayan Vasudevan

Gradient-based trajectory optimization with B-spline curves is widely used for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to its fast convergence and continuous trajectory generation. However, the application of B-spline curves for path-velocity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jongseo Choi , Hyuntai Chin , Hyunwoo Park , Daehyeok Kwon , Doosan Baek , Sang-Hyun Lee

Quadrotors hold significant promise for several applications such as agriculture, search and rescue, and infrastructure inspection. Achieving autonomous operation requires systems to navigate safely through complex and unfamiliar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jeffrey Mao , Raghuram Cauligi Srinivas , Steven Nogar , Giuseppe Loianno

Drones have become essential in various applications, but conventional quadrotors face limitations in confined spaces and complex tasks. Deformable drones, which can adapt their shape in real-time, offer a promising solution to overcome…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuze Wu , Zhichao Han , Xuankang Wu , Yuan Zhou , Junjie Wang , Zheng Fang , Fei Gao

Efficient and safe trajectory planning plays a critical role in the application of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles. Currently, the inherent trade-off between constraint compliance and computational efficiency enhancement in UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jinhao Zhang , Zhexuan Zhou , Wenlong Xia , Youmin Gong , Jie Mei

Unlike squared (or alike) quadrotors, elongated bi-copters leverage natural superiority in crossing tight spaces. To date, extensive works have focused on the design, modeling, and control of bi-copters. Besides, a proper motion planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xin Dong , Yangjie Cui , Jingwu Xiang , Daochun Li , Zhan Tu

Quadrotors can achieve aggressive flight by tracking complex maneuvers and rapidly changing directions. Planning for aggressive flight with trajectory optimization could be incredibly fast, even in higher dimensions, and can account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Ramkumar Natarajan , Howie Choset , Maxim Likhachev

Autonomous drones have gained considerable attention for applications in real-world scenarios, such as search and rescue, inspection, and delivery. As their use becomes ever more pervasive in civilian applications, failure to ensure safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Theodoros Tavoulareas , Marzia Cescon

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate method for autonomous surface vehicles to generate a smooth and collision-free trajectory considering its dynamics constraints. We decouple the trajectory planning problem as a front-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Licheng Wen , Jiaqing Yan , Xuemeng Yang , Yong Liu , Yong Gu

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

This paper investigates an efficient algorithm for trajectory planning problem of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles which fly over three-dimensional terrains. The proposed algorithm combines convex optimization with disjunctive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Alireza Babaei , Amirhossein Karimi

In this paper, we address the problem of safe trajectory planning for autonomous search and exploration in constrained, cluttered environments. Guaranteeing safe (collision-free) trajectories is a challenging problem that has garnered…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Cameron Lerch , Dayi Dong , Ian Abraham

In this paper, we present a novel RRT*-based strategy for generating kinodynamically feasible paths that satisfy temporal logic specifications. Our approach integrates a robustness metric for Linear Temporal Logics (LTL) with the system's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Saksham Gautam , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

Safety-guaranteed motion planning is critical for self-driving cars to generate collision-free trajectories. A layered motion planning approach with decoupled path and speed planning is widely used for this purpose. This approach is prone…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Srujan Deolasee , Qin Lin , Jialun Li , John M. Dolan

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal

Quadrotors with large thrust-to-weight ratios are able to track aggressive trajectories with sharp turns and high accelerations. In this work, we develop a search-based trajectory planning approach that exploits the quadrotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sikang Liu , Kartik Mohta , Nikolay Atanasov , Vijay Kumar