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Coverage path planning in a generic known environment is shown to be NP-hard. When the environment is unknown, it becomes more challenging as the robot is required to rely on its online map information built during coverage for planning its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Javad Heydari , Olimpiya Saha , Viswanath Ganapathy

We consider a large-scale multi-robot path planning problem in a cluttered environment. Our approach achieves real-time replanning by dividing the workspace into cells and utilizing a hierarchical planner. Specifically, we propose novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Lishuo Pan , Kevin Hsu , Nora Ayanian

The goal of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is to find a set of paths for a fleet of agents moving in a shared environment such that the agents reach their goals without colliding with each other. In practice, some of the robots executing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-15 David Zahrádka , Denisa Mužíková , David Woller , Miroslav Kulich , Jiří Švancara , Roman Barták

In this work, we propose a method for multiple mobile robot motion planning that efficiently plans for robot teams up to 128 robots (an order of magnitude larger than existing state-of-the-art methods) in congested settings with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Isaac Ngui , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

The problem of finding a path between two points while avoiding obstacles is critical in robotic path planning. We focus on the feasibility problem: determining whether such a path exists. We model the robot as a query-specific rectangular…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alex Fan , Alicia Li , Arul Kolla , Jason Gonzalez

We investigate the problem of multi-robot coordinated planning in environments where the robots may have to operate in close proximity to each other. We seek computationally efficient planners that ensure safe paths and adherence to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Clayton Mangette , Pratap Tokekar

Recent advancements in self-driving car technologies have enabled them to navigate autonomously through various environments. However, one of the critical challenges in autonomous vehicle operation is trajectory planning, especially in…

Indoor motion planning focuses on solving the problem of navigating an agent through a cluttered environment. To date, quite a lot of work has been done in this field, but these methods often fail to find the optimal balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shivam Sood , Jaskaran Singh Sodhi , Parv Maheshwari , Karan Uppal , Debashish Chakravarty

Safe Interval Path Planning (SIPP) is a powerful algorithm for solving single-agent pathfinding problem when the agent is confined to a graph and certain vertices/edges of this graph are blocked at certain time intervals due to dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

Global path planning is the key technology in the design of unmanned surface vehicles. This paper establishes global environment modelling based on electronic charts and hexagonal grids which are proved to be better than square grids in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Yanlong Wang , Xuemin Yu , Xu Liang

In this paper, we tackle the problem of planning an optimal coverage path for a robot operating indoors. Many existing approaches attempt to discourage turns in the path by covering the environment along the least number of coverage lines,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Megnath Ramesh , Frank Imeson , Baris Fidan , Stephen L. Smith

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is the problem of computing feasible paths for a set of agents given individual start and goal states. Given the hardness of MAMP, most of the research related to multi-agent systems has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Irving Solis , Read Sandström , James Motes , Nancy M. Amato

In this paper we present an algorithmic framework for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs with bounded pathwidth. The problems are NP-hard in general, but solvable in linear time on this type of graphs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

Fast, autonomous flight in unstructured, cluttered environments such as forests is challenging because it requires the robot to compute new plans in realtime on a computationally-constrained platform. In this paper, we enable this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , Xu Liu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

This paper introduces a wall construction planner for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which uses a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) metaheuristic to generate near-time-optimal building plans for even large walls within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Basel Elkhapery , Robert Pěnička , Michal Němec , Mohsin Siddiqui

Optimal path planning problems for rigid and deformable (bendable) cuboid robots are considered by providing an analytic safety constraint using generalized $L_p$ norms. For regular cuboid robots, level sets of weighted $L_p$ norms generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Nak-seung P. Hyun , Patricio A. Vela , Erik I. Verriest

Path Planning and target searching in a three-dimensional environment is a challenging task in the field of robotics. It is an optimization problem as the path from source to destination has to be optimal. This paper aims to generate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Devansh Verma , Priyansh Saxena , Ritu Tiwari

Multi-agent path planning is a critical challenge in robotics, requiring agents to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions and optimizing travel efficiency. This work addresses the limitations of existing approaches by…