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Motion Planning is necessary for robots to complete different tasks. Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) and its variants have been widely used in robot motion planning due to their fast search in state space. However, they perform not well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Zhirui Sun , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Navigating rigid body objects through crowded environments can be challenging, especially when narrow passages are presented. Existing sampling-based planners and optimization-based methods like mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mingxin Yu , Chuchu Fan

The paper represents an algorithm for planning safe and optimal routes for transport facilities with unrestricted movement direction that travel within areas with obstacles. Paper explains the algorithm using a ship as an example of such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ivan Yanchin , Oleg Petrov

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

Evolutionary algorithms are wildly used in unmanned aerial vehicle path planning for their flexibility and effectiveness. Nevertheless, they are so sensitive to the change of environment that can't adapt to all scenarios. Due to this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiabin Lou , Rong Ding , Wenjun Wu

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

Autonomous marine vehicles play an essential role in many ocean science and engineering applications. Planning time and energy optimal paths for these vehicles to navigate in stochastic dynamic ocean environments is essential to reduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Rohit Chowdhury , Deepak Subramani

In this paper, we consider the multi-robot path execution problem where a group of robots move on predefined paths from their initial to target positions while avoiding collisions and deadlocks in the face of asynchrony. We first show that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yunus Emre Sahin , Necmiye Ozay

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

Robot path planning is difficult to solve due to the contradiction between optimality of results and complexity of algorithms, even in 2D environments. To find an optimal path, the algorithm needs to search all the state space, which costs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zhaoting Li , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

This paper addresses the optimization of human-robot collaborative work-cells before their physical deployment. Most of the times, such environments are designed based on the experience of the system integrators, often leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Christian Cella , Matteo Bruce Robin , Marco Faroni , Andrea Maria Zanchettin , Paolo Rocco

In this work, we present a workspace-based planning framework, which though using redundant workspace key-points to represent robot states, can take advantage of the interpretable geometric information to derive good quality collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Weifu Wang , Ping Li

This paper presents a solution to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) large scale route planning and task assignment joint problem. Given a set of constraints (e.g., time) and a set of task priority values, the goal is to find the optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 S. Mahmoud Zadeh , D. Powers , K. Sammut , A. Lammas , A. M. Yazdani

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

Multi-goal path finding (MGPF) aims to find a closed and collision-free path to visit a sequence of goals orderly. As a physical travelling salesman problem, an undirected complete graph with accurate weights is crucial for determining the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yuan Huang

Modern trajectory optimization based approaches to motion planning are fast, easy to implement, and effective on a wide range of robotics tasks. However, trajectory optimization algorithms have parameters that are typically set in advance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Mohak Bhardwaj , Byron Boots , Mustafa Mukadam

In Social Robot Navigation, autonomous agents need to resolve many sequential interactions with other agents. State-of-the art planners can efficiently resolve the next, imminent interaction cooperatively and do not focus on longer planning…

We address the problem of planning robot motions in constrained configuration spaces where the constraints change throughout the motion. The problem is formulated as a fixed sequence of intersecting manifolds, which the robot needs to…

In this work, we systematically examine the application of spatio-temporal splitting heuristics to the Multi-Robot Motion Planning (MRMP) problem in a graph-theoretic setting: a problem known to be NP-hard to optimally solve. Following the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Teng Guo , Shuai D. Han , Jingjin Yu

Multi-Robot Motion Planning (MRMP) involves generating collision-free trajectories for multiple robots operating in a shared continuous workspace. While discrete multi-agent path finding (MAPF) methods are broadly adopted due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jinhao Liang , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto