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For a nonlinear stochastic path planning problem, sampling-based algorithms generate thousands of random sample trajectories to find the optimal path while guaranteeing safety by Lagrangian penalty methods. However, the sampling-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Chuyuan Tao , Hunmin Kim , Hyungjin Yoon , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros Voulgaris

Local search is a fundamental method in operations research and combinatorial optimisation. It has been widely applied to a variety of challenging problems, including multi-objective optimisation where multiple, often conflicting,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li

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

During the last decade, sampling-based path planning algorithms, such as Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRM) and Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT), have been shown to work well in practice and possess theoretical guarantees such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

In this work, we present a novel sampling-based path planning method, called SPRINT. The method finds solutions for high dimensional path planning problems quickly and robustly. Its efficiency comes from minimizing the number of collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Daniel Rakita , Bilge Mutlu , Michael Gleicher

In recent years, learning-based approaches have revolutionized motion planning. The data generation process for these methods involves caching a large number of high quality paths for different queries (start, goal pairs) in various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sagar Suhas Joshi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The paper introduces an asymptotically optimal lifelong sampling-based path planning algorithm that combines the merits of lifelong planning algorithms and lazy search algorithms for rapid replanning in dynamic environments where edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lu Huang , Jingwen Yu , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

Asymptotically optimal sampling-based planners require an intelligent exploration strategy to accelerate convergence. After an initial solution is found, a necessary condition for improvement is to generate new samples in the so-called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Sagar Suhas Joshi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms are widely used in robotics because they are very effective in high-dimensional spaces. However, the success rate and quality of the solutions are determined by an adequate selection of their…

A simple sample-based planning method is presented which approximates connected regions of free space with volumes in Configuration space instead of points. The algorithm produces very sparse trees compared to point-based planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-09-15 Alexander Shkolnik , Russ Tedrake

Sampling-based methods are widely adopted solutions for robot motion planning. The methods are straightforward to implement, effective in practice for many robotic systems. It is often possible to prove that they have desirable properties,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Troy McMahon , Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Kostas E. Bekris

Randomized sampling based algorithms are widely used in robot motion planning due to the problem's intractability, and are experimentally effective on a wide range of problem instances. Most variants bias their sampling using various…

We propose a novel method for multi-objective motion planning problems by leveraging the paradigm of lexicographic optimization and applying it for the first time to graph search over probabilistic roadmaps. The competing resources of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

Sampling-based planners are effective in many real-world applications such as robotics manipulation, navigation, and even protein modeling. However, it is often challenging to generate a collision-free path in environments where key areas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Constantinos Chamzas , Anshumali Shrivastava , Lydia E. Kavraki

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

In this paper, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm that finds an infinite path satisfying a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties satisfied by some regions in a given environment. The algorithm has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Cristian Ioan Vasile , Calin Belta

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used to compute dynamically feasible robot paths. However, their reliance on uniform sampling often leads to poor efficiency and slow planning in complex environments. We introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shubham Natraj , Bruno Sinopoli , Yiannis Kantaros

Sampling-based algorithms are widely used for motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces. However, due to low sampling efficiency, their performance often diminishes in complex configuration spaces with narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lu Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

Sampling-based motion planners perform exceptionally well in robotic applications that operate in high-dimensional space. However, most works often constrain the planning workspace rooted at some fixed locations, do not adaptively reason on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tin Lai