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Vehicle trajectory planning is a key component for an autonomous driving system. A practical system not only requires the component to compute a feasible trajectory, but also a comfortable one given certain comfort metrics. Nevertheless,…
The problem of kinodynamic multi-goal motion planning is to find a trajectory over multiple target locations with an apriori unknown sequence of visits. The objective is to minimize the cost of the trajectory planned in a cluttered…
Autonomous vehicle navigation in structured environments requires planners capable of generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories that satisfy dynamic and kinematic constraints. We introduce V*, a graph-based motion planner that…
Adaptive autonomous navigation with no prior knowledge of extraneous disturbance is of great significance for quadrotors in a complex and unknown environment. The mainstream that considers external disturbance is to implement…
Text-guided dynamic 3D character generation has advanced rapidly, yet producing high-quality motion that faithfully reflects rich textual descriptions remains challenging. Existing methods tend to generate limited sub-actions or incoherent…
Considering uncertainties and disturbances is an important, yet challenging, step in successful decision making. The problem becomes more challenging in safety-constrained environments. In this paper, we propose a robust and safe trajectory…
To perform autonomous driving maneuvers, such as parallel or perpendicular parking, a vehicle requires continual speed and steering adjustments to follow a generated path. In consequence, the path's quality is a limiting factor of the…
We present DDTO--deferred-decision trajectory optimization--a framework for trajectory generation with resilience to unmodeled uncertainties and contingencies. The key idea is to ensure that a collection of candidate targets is reachable…
Legged robot locomotion requires the planning of stable reference trajectories, especially while traversing uneven terrain. The proposed trajectory optimization framework is capable of generating dynamically stable base and footstep…
In this work, we address the problem of computation time for trajectory generation in quadrotors. Most trajectory generation methods for waypoint navigation of quadrotors, for example minimum snap/jerk and minimum-time, are structured as…
The recent works on quadrotor have focused on more and more challenging tasks on increasingly complex systems. Systems are often augmented with slung loads, inverted pendulums or arms, and accomplish complex tasks such as going through a…
Gradient-based planners are widely used for quadrotor local planning, in which a Euclidean Signed Distance Field (ESDF) is crucial for evaluating gradient magnitude and direction. Nevertheless, computing such a field has much redundancy…
Motion planning for aerial manipulators in constrained environments has typically been limited to known environments or simplified to that of multi-rotors, which leads to poor adaptability and overly conservative trajectories. This paper…
Multi-mobile robot systems show great advantages over one single robot in many applications. However, the robots are required to form desired task-specified formations, making feasible motions decrease significantly. Thus, it is challenging…
We consider time-optimal motion planning for dynamical systems that are translation-invariant, a property that holds for many mobile robots, such as differential-drives, cars, airplanes, and multirotors. Our key insight is that we can…
Target tracking has numerous significant civilian and military applications, and maintaining the visibility of the target plays a vital role in ensuring the success of the tracking task. Existing visibility-aware planners primarily focus on…
We propose a novel method for fitting planar B-spline curves to unorganized data points. In traditional methods, optimization of control points and foot points are performed in two very time-consuming steps in each iteration: 1) control…
Generating safety-critical scenarios is essential for validating the robustness of autonomous driving systems, yet existing methods often struggle to produce collisions that are both realistic and diverse while ensuring explicit interaction…
Minimum-time navigation within constrained and dynamic environments is of special relevance in robotics. Seeking time-optimality, while guaranteeing the integrity of time-varying spatial bounds, is an appealing trade-off for agile vehicles,…
This paper presents a two-step algorithm for online trajectory planning in indoor environments with unknown obstacles. In the first step, sampling-based path planning techniques such as the optimal Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT*)…