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It will be increasingly common for robots to operate in cluttered human-centered environments such as homes, workplaces, and hospitals, where the robot is often tasked to maintain perception constraints, such as monitoring people or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Qingxi Meng , Emiliano Flores , Thai Duong , Vaibhav Unhelkar , Lydia E. Kavraki

Precise and flexible cart-pushing is a challenging task for mobile robots. The motion constraints during cart-pushing and the robot's redundancy lead to complex motion planning problems, while variable payloads and disturbances present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhe Zhang , Peijia Xie , Yuhan Pang , Zhirui Sun , Bingyi Xia , Bi-Ke Zhu , Jiankun Wang

Even though motion planning for automated vehicles has been extensively discussed for more than two decades, it is still a highly active field of research with a variety of different approaches having been published in the recent years.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Marcus Nolte , Susanne Ernst , Jan Richelmann , Markus Maurer

This paper presents a novel method to generate spatial constraints for motion planning in dynamic environments. Motion planning methods for autonomous driving and mobile robots typically need to rely on the spatial constraints imposed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Han Hu , Peyman Yadmellat

Multi-mobile robot systems show great advantages over one single robot in many applications. However, the robots are required to form desired task-specified formations, making feasible motions decrease significantly. Thus, it is challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Wenhang Liu , Jiawei Hu , Heng Zhang , Michael Yu Wang , Zhenhua Xiong

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning algorithm which is based on model predictive control (MPC). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Rahul Tallamraju , Sujit Rajappa , Michael Black , Kamalakar Karlapalem , Aamir Ahmad

Mobile robots rely on maps to navigate through an environment. In the absence of any map, the robots must build the map online from partial observations as they move in the environment. Traditional methods build a map using only direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Vishnu Dutt Sharma

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

Accurate knowledge of object poses is crucial to successful robotic manipulation tasks, and yet most current approaches only work in laboratory settings. Noisy sensors and cluttered scenes interfere with accurate pose recognition, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Felix Jonathan , Chris Paxton , Gregory D. Hager

This paper presents a study on the development of an obstacle-avoidance navigation system for autonomous navigation in home environments. The system utilizes vision-based techniques and advanced path-planning algorithms to enable the robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sagar Manglani

The improvement of traffic efficiency at urban intersections receives strong research interest in the field of automated intersection management. So far, mostly non-learning algorithms like reservation or optimization-based ones were…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Marvin Klimke , Jasper Gerigk , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Robots are increasingly expected to manipulate objects in ever more unstructured environments where the object properties have high perceptual uncertainty from any single sensory modality. This directly impacts successful object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Wenyu Liang , Fen Fang , Cihan Acar , Wei Qi Toh , Ying Sun , Qianli Xu , Yan Wu

In this paper, we look into the minimum obstacle displacement (MOD) planning problem from a mobile robot motion planning perspective. This problem finds an optimal path to goal by displacing movable obstacles when no path exists due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Antony Thomas , Giulio Ferro , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Michela Robba

Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion planning (MoP) challenges in autonomous driving (AD). Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhuoren Li , Guizhe Jin , Ran Yu , Zhiwen Chen , Nan Li , Wei Han , Lu Xiong , Bo Leng , Jia Hu , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Dimitar Filev

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

Context plays a significant role in the generation of motion for dynamic agents in interactive environments. This work proposes a modular method that utilises a learned model of the environment for motion prediction. This modularity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Todor Davchev , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

We consider the problem of generating motion plans for a robot that are guaranteed to succeed despite uncertainty in the environment, parametric model uncertainty, and disturbances. Furthermore, we consider scenarios where these plans must…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Anirudha Majumdar , Russ Tedrake

Navigating urban environments represents a complex task for automated vehicles. They must reach their goal safely and efficiently while considering a multitude of traffic participants. We propose a modular decision making algorithm to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Maxime Bouton , Alireza Nakhaei , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Learning from demonstration for motion planning is an ongoing research topic. In this paper we present a model that is able to learn the complex mapping from raw 2D-laser range findings and a target position to the required steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Mark Pfeiffer , Michael Schaeuble , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena