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This paper presents a motion planner for systems subject to kinematic and dynamic constraints. The former appear when kinematic loops are present in the system, such as in parallel manipulators, in robots that cooperate to achieve a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Ricard Bordalba , Lluís Ros , Josep M. Porta

The rapid advancement of high degree-of-freedom (DoF) serial manipulators necessitates the use of swift, sampling-based motion planners for high-dimensional spaces. While sampling-based planners like the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Theodore M. Belmont , Benjamin A. Christie , Anton Netchaev

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minseo Kwon , Young J. Kim

Optimization-based samplers such as randomize-then-optimize (RTO) [2] provide an efficient and parallellizable approach to solving large-scale Bayesian inverse problems. These methods solve randomly perturbed optimization problems to draw…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-29 Johnathan Bardsley , Tiangang Cui , Youssef Marzouk , Zheng Wang

This work casts the kinodynamic planning problem for car-like vehicles as an optimization task to compute a minimum-time trajectory and its associated velocity profile, subject to boundary conditions on velocity, acceleration, and steering.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Otobong Jerome , Alexandr Klimchik , Alexander Maloletov , Geesara Kulathunga

This paper introduces Bidirectional Tight Informed Trees (BTIT*), an asymptotically optimal kinodynamic sampling-based motion planning algorithm that integrates an anytime bidirectional heuristic search (Bi-HS) and ensures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Wang , Bingxian Mu , Shahab Shokouhi , May-Win Thein

In this paper, we present a novel RRT*-based strategy for generating kinodynamically feasible paths that satisfy temporal logic specifications. Our approach integrates a robustness metric for Linear Temporal Logics (LTL) with the system's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Saksham Gautam , Ratnangshu Das , Pushpak Jagtap

Sampling-based planning algorithms like Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) are versatile in solving path planning problems. RRT* offers asymptotic optimality but requires growing the tree uniformly over the free space, which leaves room…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Zhe Huang , Hongyu Chen , John Pohovey , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

We present a motion planner for planning through space-time with dynamic obstacles, velocity constraints, and unknown arrival time. Our algorithm, Space-Time RRT* (ST-RRT*), is a probabilistically complete, bidirectional motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Francesco Grothe , Valentin N. Hartmann , Andreas Orthey , Marc Toussaint

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…

We explore path planning followed by kinodynamic smoothing while ensuring the vehicle dynamics feasibility for MAVs. We have chosen a geometrically based motion planning technique \textquotedblleft RRT*\textquotedblright\; for this purpose.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Geesara Kulathunga , Dmitry Devitt , Roman Fedorenko , Sergei Savin , Alexandr Klimchik

Efficiently finding safe and feasible trajectories for mobile objects is a critical field in robotics and computer science. In this paper, we propose SIL-RRT*, a novel learning-based motion planning algorithm that extends the RRT* algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuzhe Dang , Stefan Edelkamp

Path planners based on basic rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs) are quick and efficient, and thus favourable for real-time robot path planning, but are almost-surely suboptimal. In contrast, the optimal RRT (RRT*) converges to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Bongani B. Maseko , Corné E. van Daalen , Johann Treurnicht

Over the last 20 years significant effort has been dedicated to the development of sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its asymptotically optimal version (e.g. RRT*). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georgios Papadopoulos , Hanna Kurniawati , Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

Anytime almost-surely asymptotically optimal planners, such as RRT*, incrementally find paths to every state in the search domain. This is inefficient once an initial solution is found as then only states that can provide a better solution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Jonathan D Gammell , Timothy D Barfoot , Siddhartha S Srinivasa

During the last decade, incremental sampling-based motion planning algorithms, such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been shown to work well in practice and to possess theoretical guarantees such as probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-05-05 Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

Motion planning is a mature area of research in robotics with many well-established methods based on optimization or sampling the state space, suitable for solving kinematic motion planning. However, when dynamic motions under constraints…

We present a novel approach for generating motion primitives for kinodynamic motion planning using diffusion models. The motions generated by our approach are adapted to each problem instance by utilizing problem-specific parameters,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julius Franke , Akmaral Moldagalieva , Pia Hanfeld , Wolfgang Hönig

State estimation and control are often addressed separately, leading to unsafe execution due to sensing noise, execution errors, and discrepancies between the planning model and reality. Simultaneous control and trajectory estimation using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Edgar Granados , Sumanth Tangirala , Kostas E. Bekris

The Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm has been one of the most prevalent and popular motion-planning techniques for two decades now. Surprisingly, in spite of its centrality, there has been an active debate under which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Michal Kleinbort , Kiril Solovey , Zakary Littlefield , Kostas E. Bekris , Dan Halperin