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Path planning algorithms, such as the search-based A*, are a critical component of autonomous mobile robotics, enabling robots to navigate from a starting point to a destination efficiently and safely. We investigated the resilience of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Adrian Szvoren , Jianwei Liu , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Nilufer Tuptuk

Path finding algorithm addresses problem of finding shortest path from source to destination avoiding obstacles. There exist various search algorithms namely A*, Dijkstra's and ant colony optimization. Unlike most path finding algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Ahlam Ansari , Mohd Amin Sayyed , Khatija Ratlamwala , Parvin Shaikh

Optimal motion planning involves obstacles avoidance where path planning is the key to success in optimal motion planning. Due to the computational demands, most of the path planning algorithms can not be employed for real-time based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Geesara Kulathunga

This paper presents a unified optimization-based path planning approach to efficiently compute locally optimal solutions to advanced path planning problems. The approach is motivated by first showing that a lattice-based path planner can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Kristoffer Bergman , Oskar Ljungqvist , Daniel Axehill

The most crucial challenges for UAVs are planning paths and avoiding obstacles in their way. In recent years, a wide variety of path-planning algorithms have been developed. These algorithms have successfully solved path-planning problems;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Hichem Cheriet , Khellat Kihel Badra , Chouraqui Samira

With the recent advances in machine learning, path planning algorithms are also evolving; however, the learned path planning algorithms often have difficulty competing with success rates of classic algorithms. We propose waypoint planning…

Sampling-based algorithms for robot path planning offer probabilistic completeness and strong empirical convergence properties across environments with diverse obstacle configurations. However, in practice, these methods often require many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui , Bara J. Emran

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

Fastest-path queries between two points in a very large road map is an increasingly important primitive in modern transportation and navigation systems, thus very efficient computation of these paths is critical for system performance and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Renjie Chen , Craig Gotsman

Learning-based path planning is becoming a promising robot navigation methodology due to its adaptability to various environments. However, the expensive computing and storage associated with networks impose significant challenges for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jinsong Li , Shaochen Wang , Ziyang Chen , Zhen Kan , Jun Yu

We study efficient and exact shortest path algorithms for routing on road networks with realistic traffic data. For navigation applications, both current (i.e., live) traffic events and predictions of future traffic flows play an important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nils Werner , Tim Zeitz

This paper focuses on automatic guided vehicle (AGV) trajectory planning in the presence of moving obstacles with known but complicated trajectories. In order to achieve good solution precision, optimality and unification, the concerned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bai Li , Youmin Zhang , Yakun Ouyang , Yi Liu , Xiang Zhong , Hangjie Cen , Qi Kong

We focus on the problem of long-range dynamic replanning for off-road autonomous vehicles, where a robot plans paths through a previously unobserved environment while continuously receiving noisy local observations. An effective approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Matt Schmittle , Rohan Baijal , Brian Hou , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Byron Boots

Optimal path planning requires finding a series of feasible states from the starting point to the goal to optimize objectives. Popular path planning algorithms, such as Effort Informed Trees (EIT*), employ effort heuristics to guide the…

Replanning in temporal logic tasks is extremely difficult during the online execution of robots. This study introduces an effective path planner that computes solutions for temporal logic goals and instantly adapts to non-static and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yizhou Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

Path planning in robotics often involves solving continuously valued, high-dimensional problems. Popular informed approaches include graph-based searches, such as A*, and sampling-based methods, such as Informed RRT*, which utilize informed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Yu Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

We propose Neural Reasoner, a framework for neural network-based reasoning over natural language sentences. Given a question, Neural Reasoner can infer over multiple supporting facts and find an answer to the question in specific forms.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Baolin Peng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Kam-Fai Wong

Circuit routing has been a historically challenging problem in designing electronic systems such as very large-scale integration (VLSI) and printed circuit boards (PCBs). The main challenge is that connecting a large number of electronic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Shiyu Huang , Bin Wang , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Ting Chen , Jun Zhu

Reasoning on large-scale knowledge graphs has been long dominated by embedding methods. While path-based methods possess the inductive capacity that embeddings lack, their scalability is limited by the exponential number of paths. Here we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhaocheng Zhu , Xinyu Yuan , Mikhail Galkin , Sophie Xhonneux , Ming Zhang , Maxime Gazeau , Jian Tang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) allows a system to interact with its environment and take actions by training an efficient policy that maximizes self-defined rewards. In autonomous driving, it can be used as a strategy for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xibo Li , Shruti Patel , Christof Büskens