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We address the challenge of real-time planning of minimum-time trajectories over multiple waypoints, onboard multirotor UAVs. Previous works demonstrated that achieving a truly time-optimal trajectory is computationally too demanding to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Krystof Teissing , Matej Novosad , Robert Penicka , Martin Saska

We present a modular Bayesian optimization framework that efficiently generates time-optimal trajectories for a cooperative multi-agent system, such as a team of UAVs. Existing methods for multi-agent trajectory generation often rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Gilhyun Ryou , Ezra Tal , Sertac Karaman

In this paper, we propose an alternating optimization method to address a time-optimal trajectory generation problem. Different from the existing solutions, our approach introduces a new formulation that minimizes the overall trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wytze A. B. de Vries , Ming Li , Qirui Song , Zhiyong Sun

Trajectory generation in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge for quadrotors, particularly due to the non-convexity in the spatial-temporal domain. Many existing methods either assume simplified static environments or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Songhao Huang , Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

This paper presents a method for online trajectory planning in known environments. The proposed algorithm is a fusion of sampling-based techniques and model-based optimization via quadratic programming. The former is used to efficiently…

Differential drive mobile manipulators combine the mobility of wheeled bases with the manipulation capability of multi-joint arms, enabling versatile applications but posing considerable challenges for trajectory planning due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Long Xu , Choilam Wong , Mengke Zhang , Junxiao Lin , Jialiang Hou , Fei Gao

This paper presents a new trajectory replanner for grasping irregular objects. Unlike conventional grasping tasks where the object's geometry is assumed simple, we aim to achieve a "dynamic grasp" of the irregular objects, which requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Minh Nhat Vu , Florian Grander , Anh Nguyen

In this paper, we present a novel strategy to compute minimum-time trajectories for quadrotors in constrained environments. In particular, we consider the motion in a given flying region with obstacles and take into account the physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Sara Spedicato , Giuseppe Notarstefano

To continuously generate trajectories for serial manipulators with high dimensional degrees of freedom (DOF) in the dynamic environment, a real-time optimal trajectory generation method based on machine learning aiming at high dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Shiyu Zhang , Shuling Dai

Efficient trajectory optimization is essential for avoiding collisions in unstructured environments, but it remains challenging to have both speed and quality in the solutions. One reason is that second-order optimality requires calculating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Changhao Wang , Jeffrey Bingham , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Autonomous navigation requires robots to generate trajectories for collision avoidance efficiently. Although plenty of previous works have proven successful in generating smooth and spatially collision-free trajectories, their solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhefan Xu , Kenji Shimada

In this paper, we present a concurrent and scalable trajectory optimization method to improve the quality of robot-assisted manufacturing. Our method simultaneously optimizes tool orientations, kinematic redundancy, and waypoint timing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yongxue Chen , Tianyu Zhang , Yuming Huang , Tao Liu , Charlie C. L. Wang

Time-jerk optimal trajectory planning is crucial in advancing robotic arms' performance in dynamic tasks. Traditional methods rely on solving complex nonlinear programming problems, bringing significant delays in generating optimized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Beibei Zhang , Tian Xiang , Chentao Mao , Yuhua Zheng , Shuai Li , Haoyi Niu , Xiangming Xi , Wenyuan Bai , Feng Gao

We propose an online iterative algorithm to optimize a convex cover to under-approximate the free space for autonomous navigation to delineate Safe Flight Corridors (SFC). The convex cover consists of a set of polytopes such that the union…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuwei Wu , Igor Spasojevic , Pratik Chaudhari , Vijay Kumar

Trajectory generation has recently drawn growing interest in privacy-preserving urban mobility studies and location-based service applications. Although many studies have used deep learning or generative AI methods to model trajectories and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yuanbo Tang , Yan Tang , Zixuan Zhang , Zihui Zhao , Yang Li

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

Applying intelligent robot arms in dynamic uncertain environments (i.e., flexible production lines) remains challenging, which requires efficient algorithms for real time trajectory generation. The motion planning problem for robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Weiye Zhao , Suqin He , Chengtao Wen , Changliu Liu

Trajectory generation in confined environment is crucial for wide adoption of intelligent robot manipulators. In this paper, we propose a novel motion planning approach for redundant robot arms that uses a hybrid optimization framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yifan Sun , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

This paper presents a trajectory generation method that optimizes a quadratic cost functional with respect to linear system dynamics and to linear input and state constraints. The method is based on continuous-time flatness-based trajectory…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Jean-Francois Stumper , Ralph Kennel

In this paper, we present a novel approach to efficiently generate collision-free optimal trajectories for multiple non-holonomic mobile robots in obstacle-rich environments. Our approach first employs a graph-based multi-agent path planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Juncheng Li , Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie