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The complex nonlinear dynamics of hydraulic excavators, such as time delays and control coupling, pose significant challenges to achieving high-precision trajectory tracking. Traditional control methods often fall short in such applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ziqing Zou , Cong Wang , Yue Hu , Xiao Liu , Bowen Xu , Rong Xiong , Changjie Fan , Yingfeng Chen , Yue Wang

The resurgence of lunar operations requires advancements in cislunar navigation and Space Situational Awareness (SSA). Challenges associated to these tasks have created an interest in autonomous planning, navigation, and tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Trevor N. Wolf , Brandon A. Jones

In autonomous navigation, trajectory replanning, refinement, and control command generation are essential for effective motion planning. This paper presents a resilient approach to trajectory replanning addressing scenarios where the…

Autonomous high-speed navigation through large, complex environments requires real-time generation of agile trajectories that are dynamically feasible, collision-free, and satisfy constraints. Most modern trajectory planning techniques rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Helene J. Levy , Brett T. Lopez

To overcome the problem of occlusion in visual tracking, this paper proposes an occlusion-aware tracking algorithm. The proposed algorithm divides the object into discrete image patches according to the pixel distribution of the object by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Rongtai Caiand Peng Zhu

The robotics community is increasingly interested in autonomous aerial transportation. Unmanned aerial vehicles with suspended payloads have advantages over other systems, including mechanical simplicity and agility, but pose great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haojia Li , Haokun Wang , Chen Feng , Fei Gao , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

Trajectory generation in dynamic environments presents a significant challenge for quadrotors, particularly due to the non-convexity in the spatial-temporal domain. Many existing methods either assume simplified static environments or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Songhao Huang , Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

Maintaining the visibility of the target is one of the major objectives of aerial tracking missions. This paper proposes a target-visible trajectory planning pipeline using quadratic programming. Our approach can handle various tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yunwoo Lee , Jungwon Park , Seungwoo Jung , Boseong Jeon , Dahyun Oh , H. Jin Kim

The safe trajectory planning of intelligent and connected vehicles is a key component in autonomous driving technology. Modeling the environment risk information by field is a promising and effective approach for safe trajectory planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zeyu Han , Mengchi Cai , Chaoyi Chen , Qingwen Meng , Guangwei Wang , Ying Liu , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

In this paper, an adaptive super-twisting controller is designed for an agile maneuvering quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle to achieve accurate trajectory tracking in the presence of external disturbances. A cascaded control architecture is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao , Hamed Habibi , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Prathyush P. Menon , Christopher Edwards , Holger Voos

This letter aims to generate a continuous-time trajectory consisting of piecewise B\'ezier curves that satisfy signal temporal logic (STL) specifications with piecewise time-varying robustness. Our time-varying robustness is less…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yating Yuan , Thanin Quartz , Jun Liu

Occlusion is a long-standing problem that causes many modern tracking methods to be erroneous. In this paper, we address the occlusion problem by exploiting the current and future possible locations of the target object from its past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuan Liu , Ruoteng Li , Robby T. Tan , Yu Cheng , Xiubao Sui

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

Motion planning is an extremely well-studied problem in the robotics community, yet existing work largely falls into one of two categories: computationally efficient but with few if any safety guarantees, or able to give stronger guarantees…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-08 David Fridovich-Keil , Sylvia L. Herbert , Jaime F. Fisac , Sampada Deglurkar , Claire J. Tomlin

Terrestrial and aerial bimodal vehicles have gained widespread attention due to their cross-domain maneuverability. Nevertheless, their bimodal dynamics significantly increase the complexity of motion planning and control, thus hindering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ruibin Zhang , Junxiao Lin , Yuze Wu , Yuman Gao , Chi Wang , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao , Fei Gao

Autonomous flight in unknown environments requires precise spatial and temporal trajectory planning, often involving computationally expensive nonconvex optimization prone to local optima. To overcome these challenges, we present the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Wenyuan Qin , Yongzhao Hua , Xiwang Dong , Qingdong Li

We propose ProTracker, a novel framework for accurate and robust long-term dense tracking of arbitrary points in videos. Previous methods relying on global cost volumes effectively handle large occlusions and scene changes but lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tingyang Zhang , Chen Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Qingzhe Gao , Jiahui Lei , Baoquan Chen , Lingjie Liu

The quadrotor is popularly used in challenging environments due to its superior agility and flexibility. In these scenarios, trajectory planning plays a vital role in generating safe motions to avoid obstacles while ensuring flight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Lun Quan , Zhiwei Zhang , Xingguang Zhong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

The task of maneuvering a multi-steered articulated vehicle in confined environments is difficult even for experienced drivers. In this work, we present an optimization-based trajectory planner targeting low-speed maneuvers in unstructured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Oskar Ljungqvist , Kristoffer Bergman , Daniel Axehill