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Real-time kinodynamic trajectory planning in dynamic environments is critical yet challenging for autonomous driving. In this letter, we propose an efficient trajectory planning system for autonomous driving in complex dynamic scenarios…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Cheng Jie , Chen Yingbing , Zhang Qingwen , Gan Lu , Liu Ming

With the release of open source datasets such as nuPlan and Argoverse, the research around learning-based planners has spread a lot in the last years. Existing systems have shown excellent capabilities in imitating the human driver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Cristian Gariboldi , Matteo Corno , Beng Jin

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, existing FL algorithms predominantly focus on unconstrained optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Hongye Wang , Zhaoye Pan , Chang He , Jiaxiang Li , Bo Jiang

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mark L. Mote , Juan-Pablo Afman , Eric Feron

One of the fundamental tasks of autonomous driving is safe trajectory planning, the task of deciding where the vehicle needs to drive, while avoiding obstacles, obeying safety rules, and respecting the fundamental limits of road. Real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Milin Patel , Marzana Khatun , Rolf Jung , Michael Glaß

We present Splatblox, a real-time system for autonomous navigation in outdoor environments with dense vegetation, irregular obstacles, and complex terrain. Our method fuses segmented RGB images and LiDAR point clouds using Gaussian…

It is ubiquitously accepted that during the autonomous navigation of the quadrotors, one of the most widely adopted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), safety always has the highest priority. However, it is observed that the ego airflow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Luqi Wang , Boyu Zhou , Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

Recently, many reactive trajectory planning approaches were suggested in the literature because of their inherent immediate adaption in the ever more demanding cluttered and unpredictable environments of robotic systems. However, typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Marvin Becker , Johannes Köhler , Sami Haddadin , Matthias A. Müller

Plane Geometry Diagram Synthesis has been a crucial task in computer graphics, with applications ranging from educational tools to AI-driven mathematical reasoning. Traditionally, we rely on manual tools (e.g., Matplotlib and GeoGebra) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chengrui Zhang , Maizhen Ning , Tianyi Liu , Zihao Zhou , Jie Sun , Qiufeng Wang , Kaizhu Huang

In this paper, we propose a novel optimization-based trajectory planner that utilizes spherical harmonics to estimate the collision-free solution space around an agent. The space is estimated using a constrained over-determined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Steven Patrick , Efstathios Bakolas

This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Fast and efficient collision detection is essential for motion generation in robotics. In this paper, we propose an efficient collision detection framework based on the Signed Distance Field (SDF) of robots, seamlessly integrated with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xiankun Zhu , Yucheng Xin , Shoujie Li , Houde Liu , Chongkun Xia , Bin Liang

Autonomous flight in unknown environments requires precise spatial and temporal trajectory planning, often involving computationally expensive nonconvex optimization prone to local optima. To overcome these challenges, we present the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Wenyuan Qin , Yongzhao Hua , Xiwang Dong , Qingdong Li

An extended Kalman filter (EKF) is developed on the special Euclidean group, SE(3) for geometric control of a quadrotor UAV. It is obtained by performing an extensive linearization on SE(3) to estimate the state of the quadrotor from noisy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Farhad A. Goodarzi , Taeyoung Lee

Optimization-based trajectory generation methods are widely used in whole-body planning for robots. However, existing work either oversimplifies the robot's geometry and environment representation, resulting in a conservative trajectory, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tingrui Zhang , Jingping Wang , Chao Xu , Alan Gao , Fei Gao

The objective of trajectory optimization algorithms is to achieve an optimal collision-free path between a start and goal state. In real-world scenarios where environments can be complex and non-homogeneous, a robot needs to be able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuheng Zhi , Nikhil Das , Michael Yip

Driving risk assessment is crucial for both autonomous vehicles and human-driven vehicles. The driving risk can be quantified as the product of the probability that an event (such as collision) will occur and the consequence of that event.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Junkai Jiang , Zeyu Han , Yuning Wang , Mengchi Cai , Qingwen Meng , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

This paper presents a novel feedback method on the motion planning for unicycle robots in environments with static obstacles, along with an extension to the distributed planning and coordination in multi-robot systems. The method employs a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Dimitra Panagou

In unstructured environments, obstacles are diverse and lack lane markings, making trajectory planning for intelligent vehicles a challenging task. Traditional trajectory planning methods typically involve multiple stages, including path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumin Zhang , Kuo Li , Rui He , Zhiwei Meng , Yupeng Chang , Xiaosong Jin , Ri Bai