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This paper presents a vision guidance and control method for autonomous robotic capture and stabilization of orbital objects in a time-critical manner. The method takes into account various operational and physical constraints, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Farhad Aghili

This paper addresses the autonomous robot navigation problem in a priori unknown n-dimensional environments containing disjoint convex obstacles of arbitrary shapes and sizes, with pairwise distances strictly greater than the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mayur Sawant , Ilia Polushin , Abdelhamid Tayebi

Robots that navigate among pedestrians use collision avoidance algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation. Recent works present deep reinforcement learning as a framework to model the complex interactions and cooperation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Michael Everett , Yu Fan Chen , Jonathan P. How

We consider nonconvex obstacle avoidance where a robot described by nonlinear dynamics and a nonconvex shape has to avoid nonconvex obstacles. Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental problem in robotics and well studied in control. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Paul Lutkus , Michelle S. Chong , Lars Lindemann

Most conventional wheeled robots can only move in flat environments and simply divide their planar workspaces into free spaces and obstacles. Deeming obstacles as non-traversable significantly limits wheeled robots' mobility in real-world,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Aniket Datar , Chenhui Pan , Mohammad Nazeri , Xuesu Xiao

Traditional algorithms for robots who need to integrate into a wireless network often focus on one specific task. In this work we want to develop simple, adaptive and reusable algorithms for real world applications for this scenario.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Christian Blum , Verena V. Hafner

Popular navigation stacks implemented on top of open-source frameworks such as ROS(Robot Operating System) and ROS2 represent the robot workspace using a discretized 2D occupancy grid. This method, while requiring less computation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Vishwas N. S , Srikrishna B. R , Sudarshan T. S. B

In real-world applications of mobile robots, collision avoidance is of critical importance. Typically, global motion planning in constrained environments is addressed through high-level control schemes. However, additionally integrating…

Local navigation is one of the fundamental problems in robot navigation, and numerous approaches have been proposed over the years, including methods such as the Dynamic Window Approach, Model Predictive Control, and more recently, Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Scott Fredriksson , Akshit Saradagi , George Nikolakopoulos

Collision avoidance in unknown obstacle-cluttered environments may not always be feasible. This paper focuses on an emerging paradigm shift in which potential collisions with the environment can be harnessed instead of being avoided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Zhouyu Lu , Zhichao Liu , Gustavo J. Correa , Konstantinos Karydis

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of smooth path planning for mobile robots in dynamic and unknown environments. A novel concept of Time-Warped Grid is introduced to predict the pose of obstacles in the environment and avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Siavash Farzan , Guilherme N. DeSouza

Navigating mobile robots through environments shared with humans is challenging. From the perspective of the robot, humans are dynamic obstacles that must be avoided. These obstacles make the collision-free space nonconvex, which leads to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 O. de Groot , L. Ferranti , D. Gavrila , J. Alonso-Mora

Mobile robots navigating in outdoor environments frequently encounter the issue of undesired traces left by dynamic objects and manifested as obstacles on map, impeding robots from achieving accurate localization and effective navigation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Zihong Yan , Xiaoyi Wu , Zhuozhu Jian , Bin Lan Xueqian Wang , Bin Liang

Evaluating and updating the obstacle avoidance velocity for an autonomous robot in real-time ensures robustness against noise and disturbances. A passive damping controller can obtain the desired motion with a torque-controlled robot, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lukas Huber , Thibaud Trinca , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Aude Billard

Soft growing robots, are a type of robots that are designed to move and adapt to their environment in a similar way to how plants grow and move with potential applications where they could be used to navigate through tight spaces, dangerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Haitham El-Hussieny , Ibrahim Hameed

This paper introduces a novel trajectory planner for autonomous robots, specifically designed to enhance navigation by incorporating dynamic obstacle avoidance within the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) and Navigation 2 (Nav2) framework.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Eric Schöneberg , Michael Schröder , Daniel Görges , Hans D. Schotten

This paper presents a soft earthworm robot that is capable of both efficient locomotion and obstacle avoidance. The robot is designed to replicate the unique locomotion mechanisms of earthworms, which enable them to move through narrow and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Sean Even , Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin

Obstacle avoidance and path planning are essential for guiding unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) through environments that are densely populated with dynamic obstacles. This paper develops a novel approach that combines tangentbased path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Okan Arif Guvenkaya , Selim Ahmet Iz , Mustafa Unel

This paper presents a novel approach for robot navigation in environments containing deformable obstacles. By integrating Learning from Demonstration (LfD) with Dynamical Systems (DS), we enable adaptive and efficient navigation in complex…

A novel decentralised trajectory generation algorithm for Multi Agent systems is presented. Multi-robot systems have the capacity to transform lives in a variety of fields. But, trajectory generation for multi-robot systems is still in its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Vijay Arvindh , Sivanathan K