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Navigation and motion control of a robot to a destination are tasks that have historically been performed with the assumption that contact with the environment is harmful. This makes sense for rigid-bodied robots where obstacle collisions…

This paper addresses the challenge of collision-free motion planning in automated navigation within complex environments. Utilizing advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and sensor technologies like LiDAR, we propose the TD3-DWA…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Chang Zhou , Yuelin Zou , Zijun Gao , Qi Wang

Autonomous vehicles with a self-evolving ability are expected to cope with unknown scenarios in the real-world environment. Take advantage of trial and error mechanism, reinforcement learning is able to self evolve by learning the optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuo Yang , Liwen Wang , Yanjun Huang , Hong Chen

The popularity of mobile robots has been steadily growing, with these robots being increasingly utilized to execute tasks previously completed by human workers. For bipedal robots to see this same success, robust autonomous navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Octavian A. Donca , Chayapol Beokhaimook , Ayonga Hereid

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

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

Deep reinforcement learning has great potential to acquire complex, adaptive behaviors for autonomous agents automatically. However, the underlying neural network polices have not been widely deployed in real-world applications, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan , Ruigang Yang , Dinesh Manocha

Local or reactive navigation is essential for autonomous mobile robots which operate in an indoor environment. Techniques such as SLAM, computer vision require significant computational power which increases cost. Similarly, using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yash Srivastava , Saumya Singh , S. P. Syed Ibrahim

In this work, we propose a novel motion planning algorithm to facilitate safety-critical navigation for autonomous mobile robots. The proposed algorithm integrates a real-time dynamic obstacle tracking and mapping system that categorizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Faduo Liang , Yunfeng Yang , Shi-Lu Dai

Existing aerial robot navigation systems typically plan paths around static and dynamic obstacles, but fail to adapt when a static obstacle suddenly moves. Integrating environmental semantic awareness enables estimation of potential risks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ziyi Zong , Xin Dong , Jinwu Xiang , Daochun Li , Zhan Tu

Obstacle avoidance is an important task in the field of robotics, since the goal of autonomous robot is to reach the destination without collision. Several algorithms have been proposed for obstacle avoidance, having drawbacks and benefits.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-06 M. Zohaib , M. Pasha , R. A. Riaz , N. Javaid , M. Ilahi , R. D. Khan

Path planning in obstacle-dense environments is a key challenge in robotics, and depends on inferring scene attributes and associated uncertainties. We present a multiple-hypothesis path planner designed to navigate complex environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Brian H. Wang , Beatriz Asfora , Rachel Zheng , Aaron Peng , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

We present a model predictive control (MPC) framework for efficient navigation of mobile robots in cluttered environments. The proposed approach integrates a finite-segment shortest path planner into the finite-horizon trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Johannes Köhler , Daniel Zhang , Raffaele Soloperto , Andrea Carron , Melanie Zeilinger

In this paper, we propose a new method for path planning to a point for robot in environment with obstacles. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a simple variation of Dijkstra's algorithm. By adding a constraint to the shortest-path,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Jalil Rasekhi

With the rapid development of autonomous driving, the attention of academia has increasingly focused on the development of anti-collision systems in emergency scenarios, which have a crucial impact on driving safety. While numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Guoying Chen , Xinyu Wang , Min Hua , Wei Liu

We present MOSU, a novel autonomous long-range navigation system that enhances global navigation for mobile robots through multimodal perception and on-road scene understanding. MOSU addresses the outdoor robot navigation challenge by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jing Liang , Kasun Weerakoon , Daeun Song , Senthurbavan Kirubaharan , Xuesu Xiao , Dinesh Manocha

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

Obstacle avoidance in complex and dynamic environments is a critical challenge for real-time robot navigation. Model-based and learning-based methods often fail in highly dynamic scenarios because traditional methods assume a static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yiwen Ying , Hanjing Ye , Senzi Luo , Luyao Liu , Yu Zhan , Li He , Hong Zhang

In this paper, we present an on-board vision-based approach for avoidance of moving obstacles in dynamic environments. Our approach relies on an efficient obstacle detection and tracking algorithm based on depth image pairs, which provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Jiahao Lin , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora

This paper proposes a novel learning-based control policy with strong generalizability to new environments that enables a mobile robot to navigate autonomously through spaces filled with both static obstacles and dense crowds of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhanteng Xie , Philip Dames