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Navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through cluttered and dynamic environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with fast-moving or sudden-appearing obstacles. This paper introduces a complete LiDAR-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Huajie Wu , Wenyi Liu , Yunfan Ren , Zheng Liu , Hairuo Wei , Fangcheng Zhu , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) puts forward a higher requirement for autonomous obstacle avoidance. Due to the limited payload and power supply, small UAVs such as quadrotors usually carry simple sensors and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Jiajun Ou , Xiao Guo , Ming Zhu , Wenjie Lou

We address the problem of reactive motion planning for quadrotors operating in unknown environments with dynamic obstacles. Our approach leverages a 4-dimensional spatio-temporal planner, integrated with vision-based Safe Flight Corridor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Astik Srivastava , Thomas J Chackenkulam , Bitla Bhanu Teja , Antony Thomas , Madhava Krishna

In this paper we address the problem of path planning in an unknown environment with an aerial robot. The main goal is to safely follow the planned trajectory by avoiding obstacles. The proposed approach is suitable for aerial vehicles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ana Batinovic , Jurica Goricanec , Lovro Markovic , Stjepan Bogdan

Drones have become essential in various applications, but conventional quadrotors face limitations in confined spaces and complex tasks. Deformable drones, which can adapt their shape in real-time, offer a promising solution to overcome…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuze Wu , Zhichao Han , Xuankang Wu , Yuan Zhou , Junjie Wang , Zheng Fang , Fei Gao

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

In this paper, we present a motion planning strategy for UAVs that generates a time-optimal trajectory to survey a given target area. There are several situations where completing an aerial survey is time sensitive, such as gaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tankasala Srinath , Pehlivanturk Can , Pryor Mitch

Unmapped areas and aerodynamic disturbances render autonomous navigation with quadrotors extremely challenging. To fly safely and efficiently, trajectory planners and trackers must be able to navigate unknown environments with unpredictable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yanran Wang , James O'Keeffe , Qiuchen Qian , David Boyle

Reach-avoid specifications are one of the most common tasks in autonomous aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Despite the intensive research and development associated with control of aerial vehicles, generating feasible trajectories though…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Mohamed Serry , Haocheng Chang , Jun Liu

Free-space-oriented roadmaps typically generate a series of convex geometric primitives, which constitute the safe region for motion planning. However, a static environment is assumed for this kind of roadmap. This assumption makes it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Junlong Guo , Zhiren Xun , Shuang Geng , Yi Lin , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

In many robotic tasks, such as autonomous drone racing, the goal is to travel through a set of waypoints as fast as possible. A key challenge for this task is planning the time-optimal trajectory, which is typically solved by assuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yunlong Song , Mats Steinweg , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami

We demonstrate the capabilities of an attention-based end-to-end approach for high-speed vision-based quadrotor obstacle avoidance in dense, cluttered environments, with comparison to various state-of-the-art learning architectures.…

As fully-actuated systems, omnidirectional multirotor aerial vehicles (OMAVs) have more flexible maneuverability and advantages in aggressive flight in cluttered environments than traditional underactuated MAVs. %Due to the high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Peiyan Liu , Yuanzhe Shen , Yueqian Liu , Fengyu Quan , Can Wang , Haoyao Chen

Navigating dynamic environments requires the robot to generate collision-free trajectories and actively avoid moving obstacles. Most previous works designed path planning algorithms based on one single map representation, such as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhefan Xu , Yumeng Xiu , Xiaoyang Zhan , Baihan Chen , Kenji Shimada

Obstacle avoidance of quadrotors in dynamic environments is still a very open problem. Current works commonly leverage traditional static maps to represent static obstacles and the detection and tracking of moving objects (DATMO) method to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Gang Chen , Peng Peng , Peihan Zhang , Wei Dong

Unstructured environments are difficult for autonomous driving. This is because various unknown obstacles are lied in drivable space without lanes, and its width and curvature change widely. In such complex environments, searching for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Joonwoo Ahn , Minsoo Kim , Jaeheung Park

Recent advances in trajectory replanning have enabled quadrotor to navigate autonomously in unknown environments. However, high-speed navigation still remains a significant challenge. Given very limited time, existing methods have no strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Boyu Zhou , Jie Pan , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast flight in 3-D complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching method to find a safe, kinodynamic feasible and minimum-time initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Boyu Zhou , Fei Gao , Luqi Wang , Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

The quadrotor is popularly used in challenging environments due to its superior agility and flexibility. In these scenarios, trajectory planning plays a vital role in generating safe motions to avoid obstacles while ensuring flight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Lun Quan , Zhiwei Zhang , Xingguang Zhong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao