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Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

In this paper, we present an implementation of 3-D reciprocal collision avoidance on real quadrotor helicopters where each quadrotor senses the relative position and velocity of other quadrotors using an on-board camera. We show that using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Parker Conroy , Daman Bareiss , Matt Beall , Jur van den Berg

In collective motion, perceptually-limited individuals move in an ordered manner, without centralized control. The perception of each individual is highly localized, as is its ability to interact with others. While natural collective motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Peleg Shefi , Amir Ayali , Gal A. Kaminka

In this paper, the collision avoidance problem for non-holonomic robots moving at constant linear speeds in the 2-D plane is considered. The maneuvers to avoid collisions are designed using dynamic vortex potential fields (PFs) and their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Wayne Paul Martis , Sachit Rao

Imagine sitting at your desk, looking at objects on it. You do not know their exact distances from your eye in meters, but you can immediately reach out and touch them. Instead of an externally defined unit, your sense of distance is tied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Levi Burner , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

This paper presents an approach to exploring a multi-objective reinforcement learning problem with Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning. The environment we used consists of a 2D vehicle equipped with a LIDAR sensor. The goal of the environment is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Abhiram Iyer , Aravind Mahadevan

Today's robotic quadruped systems can robustly walk over a diverse range of rough but continuous terrains, where the terrain elevation varies gradually. Locomotion on discontinuous terrains, such as those with gaps or obstacles, presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Gabriel B. Margolis , Tao Chen , Kartik Paigwar , Xiang Fu , Donghyun Kim , Sangbae Kim , Pulkit Agrawal

Obstacle avoidance is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in both known and unknown environments. This research designs, trains, and tests two custom Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), using color and depth images from a depth camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Lamiaa H. Zain , Hossam H. Ammar , Raafat E. Shalaby

Fully autonomous mobile robots have a multitude of potential applications, but guaranteeing robust navigation performance remains an open research problem. For many tasks such as repeated infrastructure inspection, item delivery, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Dominic Dall'Osto , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

A core challenge of multi-robot interactions is collision avoidance among robots with potentially conflicting objectives. We propose a game-theoretic method for collision avoidance based on rotating hyperplane constraints. These constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Fernando Palafox , Yue Yu , David Fridovich-Keil

This paper presents a study on the development of an obstacle-avoidance navigation system for autonomous navigation in home environments. The system utilizes vision-based techniques and advanced path-planning algorithms to enable the robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sagar Manglani

Localization in the environment is an essential navigational capability for animals and mobile robots. In the indoor environment, the global localization problem remains challenging to be perfectly solved with probabilistic methods.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Genghang Zhuang , Carlo Cagnetta , Zhenshan Bing , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

This paper presents a sensor-level mapless collision avoidance algorithm for use in mobile robots that map raw sensor data to linear and angular velocities and navigate in an unknown environment without a map. An efficient training strategy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hanlin Niu , Ze Ji , Farshad Arvin , Barry Lennox , Hujun Yin , Joaquin Carrasco

Robots and Humans have to share the same environment more and more often. In the aim of steering robots in a safe and convenient manner among humans it is required to understand how humans interact with them. This work focuses on collision…

The problem of distributed formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots is addressed in this paper, in which the robots are designed to track a formation. Collision avoidance among agents is guaranteed using a control law based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Thang Nguyen , Hung M. La

Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Huaxing Huang , Guijie Zhu , Zhun Fan , Hao Zhai , Yuwei Cai , Ze Shi , Zhaohui Dong , Zhifeng Hao

With increasing urban population, there is global interest in Urban Air Mobility (UAM), where hundreds of autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) execute missions in the airspace above cities. Unlike traditional human-in-the-loop air…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Alëna Rodionova , Yash Vardhan Pant , Kuk Jang , Houssam Abbas , Rahul Mangharam

Multi-robot navigation in complex environments relies on inter-robot communication and mutual observations for coordination and situational awareness. This paper studies the multi-robot navigation problem in unknown environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Kun Li , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we design decentralized control strategies for the two-dimensional movement of autonomous vehicles on lane-free roads. The bicycle kinematic model is used to model the dynamics of the vehicles, and each vehicle determines its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Iasson Karafyllis , Dionysis Theodosis , Markos Papageorgiou