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Path finding in graphs is one of the most studied classes of problems in computer science. In this context, search algorithms are often extended with heuristics for a more efficient search of target nodes. In this work we combine recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Danilo Numeroso , Davide Bacciu , Petar Veličković

Path planning is an active area of research essential for many applications in robotics. Popular techniques include graph-based searches and sampling-based planners. These approaches are powerful but have limitations. This paper continues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

Path planning is one of the most vital elements of mobile robotics, providing the agent with a collision-free route through the workspace. The global path plan can be calculated with a variety of informed search algorithms, most notably the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Alexander Lavin

Finding the shortest path between two points in a graph is a fundamental problem that has been well-studied over the past several decades. Shortest path algorithms are commonly applied to modern navigation systems, so our study aims to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin Y. Chen

A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Alex Fukunaga , Adi Botea , Yuu Jinnai , Akihiro Kishimoto

Paths generated by A* and other graph-search-based planners are widely used in the robotic field. Due to the restricted node-expansion directions, the resulting paths are usually not the shortest. Besides, unnecessary heading changes, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yong Li , Hui Cheng

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui

This paper proposes two novel path planning algorithms, Roadmap Hybrid A* and Waypoints Hybrid A*, for car-like autonomous vehicles in logistics and industrial contexts with obstacles (e.g., pallets or containers) and narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Alessandro Bonetti , Simone Guidetti , Lorenzo Sabattini

Path planning in robotics often requires finding high-quality solutions to continuously valued and/or high-dimensional problems. These problems are challenging and most planning algorithms instead solve simplified approximations. Popular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jonathan D. Gammell , Timothy D. Barfoot , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

This paper presents a hybrid motion planning strategy that combines a deep generative network with a conventional motion planning method. Existing planning methods such as A* and Hybrid A* are widely used in path planning tasks because of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Dongchan Kim , Kunsoo Huh

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) encounter significant energy, control and navigation challenges in complex underwater environments, particularly during close-proximity operations, such as launch and recovery (LAR), where fluid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zachary Cooper-Baldock , Stephen Turnock , Karl Sammut

This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

In unstructured environments like parking lots or construction sites, due to the large search-space and kinodynamic constraints of the vehicle, it is challenging to achieve real-time planning. Several state-of-the-art planners utilize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bhargav Adabala , Zlatan Ajanović

Sampling-based planning algorithms like Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) are versatile in solving path planning problems. RRT* offers asymptotic optimality but requires growing the tree uniformly over the free space, which leaves room…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Zhe Huang , Hongyu Chen , John Pohovey , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

As terrestrial resources become increasingly depleted, the demand for deep-sea resource exploration has intensified. However, the extreme conditions in the deep-sea environment pose significant challenges for underwater operations,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yinyi Lai , Jiaqi Shang , Zenghui Liu , Zheyu Jiang , Yuyang Li , Longchao Chen

Essential tasks in autonomous driving includes environment perception, detection and tracking, path planning and action control. This paper focus on path planning, which is one of the challenging task as it needs to find optimal path in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sugirtha T , Pranav S , Nitin Benjamin Dasiah , Sridevi M

Optimal path planning is the problem of finding a valid sequence of states between a start and goal that optimizes an objective. Informed path planning algorithms order their search with problem-specific knowledge expressed as heuristics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

Real-time multi-target path planning is a key issue in the field of autonomous driving. Although multiple paths can be generated in real-time with polynomial curves, the generated paths are not flexible enough to deal with complex road…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hongtu Zhou , Xinneng Yang , Enwei Zhang , Junqiao Zhao , Lewen Cai , Chen Ye , Yan Wu

An efficient robot path-planning model is vulnerable to the number of search nodes, path cost, and time complexity. The conventional A-star (A*) algorithm outperforms other grid-based algorithms for its heuristic search. However it shows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Raihan Kabir , Yutaka Watanobe , Md. Rashedul Islam , Keitaro Naruse

In this paper, a novel method for path planning of mobile robots is proposed, taking into account the non-holonomic turn radius constraints and finite dimensions of the robot. The approach involves rasterizing the environment to generate a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Suraj Kumar , Sudheendra R , Aditya R , Bharat Kumar GVP , Ravi Kumar L