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Autonomous robots must navigate reliably in unknown environments even under compromised exteroceptive perception, or perception failures. Such failures often occur when harsh environments lead to degraded sensing, or when the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jin Jin , Chong Zhang , Jonas Frey , Nikita Rudin , Matias Mattamala , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

Motion control of underwater robotic vehicles is a demanding task with great challenges imposed by external disturbances, model uncertainties and constraints of the operating workspace. Thus, robust motion control is still an open issue for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shahab Heshmati-alamdari , Alexandros Nikou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Precise manipulation tasks require accurate knowledge of payload inertial parameters. Unfortunately, identifying these parameters for unknown payloads while ensuring that the robotic system satisfies its input and state constraints while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bohao Zhang , Zichang Zhou , Ram Vasudevan

Autonomous robots are used as the tool to solve many kinds of problems, such as environmental mapping and monitoring. Either for adverse conditions related to the human presence or even for the need to reduce costs, it is certain that many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Michel Conrado Cardoso Meneses

Robotic systems, particularly in demanding environments like narrow corridors or disaster zones, often grapple with imperfect state estimation. Addressing this challenge requires a trajectory plan that not only navigates these restrictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhenyang Chen , Hongzhe Yu , Yongxin Chen

Many researchers around the world are researching to get control solutions that enhance robots' ability to navigate in dynamic environments autonomously. However, until these days robots have limited capability and many navigation tasks on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Assefinew Wondosen , Dereje Shiferaw

The deployment of humanoid robots in unstructured, human-centric environments requires navigation capabilities that extend beyond simple locomotion to include robust perception, provable safety, and socially aware behavior. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zifan Wang , Xun Yang , Jianzhuang Zhao , Jiaming Zhou , Teli Ma , Ziyao Gao , Arash Ajoudani , Junwei Liang

This thesis presents a solution that enables aerial robots to reason about surrounding wind flow fields in real time using on board sensors and embedded flight hardware. The core novelty of this research is the fusion of range measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Spencer Folk

Visual navigation is a core capability for mobile robots, yet end-to-end learning-based methods often struggle with generalization and safety in unseen, cluttered, or narrow environments. These limitations are especially pronounced in dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lingjie Zhang , Zeyu Jiang , Changhao Chen

In this paper, we consider a robot navigation problem in environments populated by humans. The goal is to determine collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectories that also maximize human satisfaction. This is because they may drive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yijie Zhou , Yan Zhang , Xusheng Luo , Michael M. Zavlanos

In practical applications, the unpredictable movement of obstacles and the imprecise state observation of robots introduce significant uncertainties for the swarm of robots, especially in cluster environments. However, existing methods are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Peng Liu , Pengming Zhu , Zhiwen Zeng , Xuekai Qiu , Yu Wang , Huimin Lu

This paper deals with a path planning and intelligent control of an autonomous robot which should move safely in partially structured environment. This environment may involve any number of obstacles of arbitrary shape and size; some of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Danica Janglova

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been successfully applied in various computer games [8]. However, it is still rarely used in real-world applications, especially for the navigation and continuous control of real mobile robots [13]. Previous…

Safe and high-speed navigation is a key enabling capability for real world deployment of robotic systems. A significant limitation of existing approaches is the computational bottleneck associated with explicit mapping and the limited field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kapil D. Katyal , Adam Polevoy , Joseph Moore , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek

Aiming to promote the wide adoption of safety filters for autonomous aerial robots, this paper presents a safe control architecture designed for seamless integration into widely used open-source autopilots. Departing from methods that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nazar Misyats , Marvin Harms , Morten Nissov , Martin Jacquet , Kostas Alexis

Exploration is a fundamental problem in robot autonomy. A major limitation, however, is that during exploration robots oftentimes have to rely on on-board systems alone for state estimation, accumulating significant drift over time in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Lukas Schmid , Victor Reijgwart , Lionel Ott , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

We present an algorithm for safe robot navigation in complex dynamic environments using a variant of model predictive equilibrium point control. We use an optimization formulation to navigate robots gracefully in dynamic environments by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Senthil Hariharan Arul , Jong Jin Park , Dinesh Manocha

Robots are increasingly integrated across industries, particularly in healthcare. However, many valuable applications for quadrupedal robots remain overlooked. This research explores the effectiveness of three reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Emma M. A. Harrison

Visual Teach-and-Repeat Navigation is a direct solution for mobile robot to be deployed in unknown environments. However, robust trajectory repeat navigation still remains challenged due to environmental changing and dynamic objects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jikai Wang , Yunqi Cheng , Kezhi Wang , Zonghai Chen

This paper presents a novel data-driven approach to vehicle motion planning and control in off-road driving scenarios. For autonomous off-road driving, environmental conditions impact terrain traversability as a function of weather, surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hossein Rastgoftar , Bingxin Zhang , Ella M. Atkins