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In this paper, we propose a novel and distributed formation control method for autonomous robots to follow the desired formation while tracking a moving target in dynamic environments. In our approach, the desired formations, which include…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Anh-Duc Dang , Hung M. La , Thang Nguyen , Joachim Horn

The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a collision-free path. However, these methods can be slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 J. Carvalho , A. Le , P. Kicki , D. Koert , J. Peters

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate method for autonomous surface vehicles to generate a smooth and collision-free trajectory considering its dynamics constraints. We decouple the trajectory planning problem as a front-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Licheng Wen , Jiaqing Yan , Xuemeng Yang , Yong Liu , Yong Gu

In this study a new approach is proposed for the generation of aircraft trajectories. The relative guidance of an aircraft, which is aimed to join in minimum time the track of a leader aircraft, is particularly considered. In a first place,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-21 Mohammad Shahzad , Félix Mora-Camino , Jules Ghislain Slama , Karim Achaibou

Drone applications continue to expand across various domains, with flocking offering enhanced cooperative capabilities but introducing significant challenges during initial formation. Existing flocking algorithms often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sujan Warnakulasooriya , Andreas Willig , Xiaobing Wu

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carl Friess , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Energy efficiency and motion smoothness are essential in trajectory planning for high-degree-of-freedom robots to ensure optimal performance and reduce mechanical wear. This paper presents a novel framework integrating sinusoidal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Sajjad Hussain , Md Saad , Almas Baimagambetov , Khizer Saeed

With the development of human space exploration, the space environment is gradually filled with abandoned satellite debris and unknown micrometeorites, which will seriously affect capture motion of space robot. Hence, a novel fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Wen Yan , Yicheng Liu

Path Planning methods for autonomously controlling swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining momentum due to their operational advantages. An increasing number of scenarios now require autonomous control of multiple UAVs, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Daniel Rivero

Robot swarms navigating through unknown obstacle environments are an emerging research area that faces challenges. Performing tasks in such environments requires swarms to achieve autonomous localization, perception, decision-making,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Pengda Mao , Shuli Lv , Chen Min , Zhaolong Shen , Quan Quan

Trajectory generation in confined environment is crucial for wide adoption of intelligent robot manipulators. In this paper, we propose a novel motion planning approach for redundant robot arms that uses a hybrid optimization framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yifan Sun , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this paper we describe a machine learning based framework for spacecraft swarm trajectory planning. In particular, we focus on coordinating motions of multi-spacecraft in formation flying through passive relative orbit(PRO) transfers.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Alex Sabol , Kyongsik Yun , Muhammad Adil , Changrak Choi , Ramtin Madani

We describe in this paper an optimal control strategy for shaping a large-scale swarm of particles using boundary global actuation. This problem arises as a key challenge in many swarm robotics applications, especially when the robots are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Carlo Sinigaglia , Andrea Manzoni , Francesco Braghin

We present a framework for safety-critical optimal control of physical systems based on denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). The technology of control barrier functions (CBFs), encoding desired safety constraints, is used in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Nicolò Botteghi , Federico Califano , Mannes Poel , Christoph Brune

This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…

In this report, we try to improve the performance of existing approaches for search operations in multi-robot context. We propose three novel algorithms that are using a triangular grid pattern, i.e., robots certainly go through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Ahmad Baranzadeh

Neural Radiance Fields and Gaussian Splatting have recently transformed computer vision by enabling photo-realistic representations of complex scenes. However, they have seen limited application in real-world robotics tasks such as…

In this paper, we propose a novel optimization-based trajectory planner that utilizes spherical harmonics to estimate the collision-free solution space around an agent. The space is estimated using a constrained over-determined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Steven Patrick , Efstathios Bakolas