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For multi-vehicle complex traffic scenarios in shared spaces such as intelligent intersections, safe coordination and trajectory planning is challenging due to computational complexity. To meet this challenge, we introduce a computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Amirreza Akbari , Johan Thunberg

Fast and accurate path planning is important for ground robots to achieve safe and efficient autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. However, most existing methods exploiting either 2D or 2.5D maps struggle to balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiayang Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Sichao Lin , Zhiqiang Zheng , Huimin Lu

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces. Unfortunately, it is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Simon Idoko , Prajyot Jadhav , Arun Kumar Singh

Path planning for multiple robots (MRPP) represents a task of finding non-colliding paths for robots through which they can navigate from their initial positions to specified goal positions. The problem is usually modeled using undirected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Pavel Surynek

We consider a problem called task ordering with path uncertainty (TOP-U) where multiple robots are provided with a set of task locations to visit in a bounded environment, but the length of the path between a pair of task locations is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Bradley Woosley , Prithviraj Dasgupta

In many robotics applications, multiple robots are working in a shared workspace to complete a set of tasks as fast as possible. Such settings can be treated as multi-modal multi-robot multi-goal path planning problems, where each robot has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Valentin N. Hartmann , Tirza Heinle , Yijiang Huang , Stelian Coros

The tractor-trailer robot consists of a drivable tractor and one or more non-drivable trailers connected via hitches. Compared to typical car-like robots, the addition of trailers provides greater transportation capability. However, this…

We present a batch trajectory optimizer that can simultaneously solve hundreds of different instances of the problem in real-time. We consider holonomic robots but relax the assumption of circular base footprint. Our main algorithmic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Fatemeh Rastgar , Houman Masnavi , Karl Kruusamäe , Alvo Aabloo , Arun Kumar Singh

Cooperative transportation, a key aspect of logistics cyber-physical systems (CPS), is typically approached using dis tributed control and optimization-based methods. The distributed control methods consume less time, but poorly handle and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Renhe Guan , Yuanzhe Wang , Tao Liu , Yan Wang

With the recent influx in demand for multi-robot systems throughout industry and academia, there is an increasing need for faster, robust, and generalizable path planning algorithms. Similarly, given the inherent connection between control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hussein Ali Jaafar , Cheng-Hao Kao , Sajad Saeedi

This work presents an efficient method to solve a class of continuous-time, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problems of robot motion in a cluttered environment. The method builds upon a path integral representation of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi

In this paper a search algorithm is proposed to find a sub optimal path for a non-holonomic system. For this purpose the algorithm starts sampling the front part of the vehicle and moves towards the destination with a cost function. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Mahdi Morsali , Fatemeh Mohseni

Real-world environments are inherently uncertain, and to operate safely in these environments robots must be able to plan around this uncertainty. In the context of motion planning, we desire systems that can maintain an acceptable level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Charles Dawson , Ashkan Jasour , Andreas Hofmann , Brian Williams

A fundamental challenge in multi-robot motion planning is achieving sufficient coordination to avoid inter-robot conflicts without incurring the large computational expense of searching the joint configuration space of the robot group. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Isaac Ngui , Courtney McBeth , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

This paper presents a new online multi-agent trajectory planning algorithm that guarantees to generate safe, dynamically feasible trajectories in a cluttered environment. The proposed algorithm utilizes a linear safe corridor (LSC) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jungwon Park , Dabin Kim , Gyeong Chan Kim , Dahyun Oh , H. Jin Kim

The main aim of this paper is to solve a path planning problem for an autonomous mobile robot in static and dynamic environments. The problem is solved by determining the collision-free path that satisfies the chosen criteria for shortest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Fatin H. Ajeil , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem , Mouayad A. Sahib , Amjad J. Humaidi

We present a scalable and effective multi-agent safe motion planner that enables a group of agents to move to their desired locations while avoiding collisions with obstacles and other agents, with the presence of rich obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Jingkai Chen , Jiaoyang Li , Chuchu Fan , Brian Williams

Drone applications continue to expand across various domains, with flocking offering enhanced cooperative capabilities but introducing significant challenges during initial formation. Existing flocking algorithms often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sujan Warnakulasooriya , Andreas Willig , Xiaobing Wu

As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability to reach the target without any collisions, but also should try to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jian Zhang