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Task allocation plays a vital role in multi-robot autonomous cleaning systems, where multiple robots work together to clean a large area. However, most current studies mainly focus on deterministic, single-task allocation for cleaning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yabin Wang , Xiaopeng Hong , Zhiheng Ma , Tiedong Ma , Baoxing Qin , Zhou Su

This work deals with the problem of planning conflict-free paths for mobile robots in cluttered environments. Since centralized, coupled planning algorithms are computationally intractable for large numbers of robots, we consider decoupled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Wenying Wu , Subhrajit Bhattacharya , Amanda Prorok

Latest research in industrial robotics is aimed at making human robot collaboration possible seamlessly. For this purpose, industrial robots are expected to work on the fly in unstructured and cluttered environments and hence the subject of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Indraneel Patil , B. K. Rout , V. Kalaichelvi

Path planning for mobile robots in large dynamic environments is a challenging problem, as the robots are required to efficiently reach their given goals while simultaneously avoiding potential conflicts with other robots or dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Binyu Wang , Zhe Liu , Qingbiao Li , Amanda Prorok

We want a multi-robot team to complete complex tasks in minimum time where the locations of task-relevant objects are not known. Effective task completion requires reasoning over long horizons about the likely locations of task-relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Abhish Khanal , Abhishek Paudel , Hung Pham , Gregory J. Stein

We study the problem of reducing the amount of communication in decentralized target tracking. We focus on the scenario where a team of robots are allowed to move on the boundary of the environment. Their goal is to seek a formation so as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

In this paper we propose a new family of RRT based algorithms, named RRT+ , that are able to find faster solutions in high-dimensional configuration spaces compared to other existing RRT variants by finding paths in lower dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Marios Xanthidis , Ioannis Rekleitis , Jason M. O'Kane

Recent advances in diffusion models hold significant potential in robotics, enabling the generation of diverse and smooth trajectories directly from raw representations of the environment. Despite this promise, applying diffusion models to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

The main novelty of the proposed approach is that it allows a robot to learn an end-to-end policy which can adapt to changes in the environment during execution. While goal conditioning of policies has been studied in the RL literature,…

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

Motion planning is a difficult problem in robot control. The complexity of the problem is directly related to the dimension of the robot's configuration space. While in many theoretical calculations and practical applications the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Felix Wiebe , Shivesh Kumar , Daniel Harnack , Malte Langosz , Hendrik Wöhrle , Frank Kirchner

Increasing interest in integrating advanced robotics within manufacturing has spurred a renewed concentration in developing real-time scheduling solutions to coordinate human-robot collaboration in this environment. Traditionally, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zheyuan Wang , Matthew Gombolay

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that involves generating feasible trajectories for a robot to follow. Recent advances in parallel computing, particularly through CPU and GPU architectures, have significantly reduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jiaming Hu , Jiawei Wang , Henrik Christensen

Quadruped platforms have become an active topic of research due to their high mobility and traversability in rough terrain. However, it is highly challenging to determine whether the clattered environment could be passed by the robot and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ildar Babataev , Aleksey Fedoseev , Nipun Weerakkodi , Elena Nazarova , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Multi-robot path finding in dynamic environments is a highly challenging classic problem. In the movement process, robots need to avoid collisions with other moving robots while minimizing their travel distance. Previous methods for this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shaoming Peng

Continuum robots are well suited for navigating confined and fragile environments, such as vascular or endoluminal anatomy, where contact with surrounding structures is often unavoidable. While controlled contact can assist motion,…

A widely accepted explanation for robots planning overcautious or overaggressive trajectories alongside human is that the crowd density exceeds a threshold such that all feasible trajectories are considered unsafe -- the freezing robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Muchen Sun , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Multi-robot flocking possesses extraordinary advantages over a single-robot system in diverse domains, but it is challenging to ensure safe and optimal performance in congested environments. Hence, this paper is focused on the investigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guobin Zhu , Qingrui Zhang , Bo Zhu , Tianjiang Hu

Industrial robots are widely used in diverse manufacturing environments. Nonetheless, how to enable robots to automatically plan trajectories for changing tasks presents a considerable challenge. Further complexities arise when robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Siddharth Singh , Tian Yu , Qing Chang , John Karigiannis , Shaopeng Liu

Motion planning in high-dimensional space is a challenging task. In order to perform dexterous manipulation in an unstructured environment, a robot with many degrees of freedom is usually necessary, which also complicates its motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Chao Liu , Mark Yim