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In this paper, we propose a new method for path planning to a point for robot in environment with obstacles. The resulting algorithm is implemented as a simple variation of Dijkstra's algorithm. By adding a constraint to the shortest-path,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Jalil Rasekhi

This paper addresses the motion control problem for mobile robots in obstacle-cluttered environments. The mobile robot has partial environment information only, and aims to move from an initial position to a target position without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Li Tan , Junlin Xiong , Yan Wang , Wei Ren

Precise and flexible cart-pushing is a challenging task for mobile robots. The motion constraints during cart-pushing and the robot's redundancy lead to complex motion planning problems, while variable payloads and disturbances present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhe Zhang , Peijia Xie , Yuhan Pang , Zhirui Sun , Bingyi Xia , Bi-Ke Zhu , Jiankun Wang

It is necessary for a mobile robot to be able to efficiently plan a path from its starting, or current, location to a desired goal location. This is a trivial task when the environment is static. However, the operational environment of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Devin Connell , Hung Manh La

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and constraints. It is often desirable for this path to also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan D. Gammell , Marlin P. Strub

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

This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

In autonomous navigation of mobile robots, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments, leaving significant amount of space unknown during planning. In practice, treating the unknown space in optimistic or pessimistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Lizi Wang , Hongkai Ye , Qianhao Wang , Yuman Gao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Driving on the limits of vehicle dynamics requires predictive planning of future vehicle states. In this work, a search-based motion planning is used to generate suitable reference trajectories of dynamic vehicle states with the goal to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Zlatan Ajanovic , Enrico Regolin , Georg Stettinger , Martin Horn , Antonella Ferrara

This paper introduces a graph-based, potential-guided method for path planning problems in unknown environments, where obstacles are unknown until the robots are in close proximity to the obstacle locations. Inspired by optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Haoyan Zhai , Magnus Egerstedt , Haomin Zhou

Path planning is an important component in any highly automated vehicle system. In this report, the general problem of path planning is considered first in partially known static environments where only static obstacles are present but the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Asem Khattab

Dexterous in-hand manipulation in robotics, particularly with multi-fingered robotic hands, poses significant challenges due to the intricate avoidance of collisions among fingers and the object being manipulated. Collision-free paths for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiao Gao , Kunpeng Yao , Farshad Khadivar , Aude Billard

Practical global path planning is critical for commercializing cleaning robots working in semi-structured environments. In the literature, global path planning methods for free space usually focus on path length and neglect the traffic rule…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yong Li , Hui Cheng

The problem of optimal feedback planning among obstacles in d-dimensional configuration spaces is considered. We present a sampling-based, asymptotically optimal feedback planning method. Our method combines an incremental construction of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Dmitry Yershov , Michael Otte , Emilio Frazzoli

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

Local planning for a differential wheeled robot is designed to generate kinodynamic feasible actions that guide the robot to a goal position along the navigation path while avoiding obstacles. Reactive, predictive, and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqiang Jian , Songyi Zhang , Lingfeng Sun , Wei Zhan , Nanning Zheng , Masayoshi Tomizuka

The ability to update a path plan is a required capability for autonomous mobile robots navigating through uncertain environments. This paper proposes a re-planning strategy using a multilayer planning and control framework for cases where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Joshua A. Robbins , Stephen J. Harnett , Andrew F. Thompson , Sean Brennan , Herschel C. Pangborn

Last-mile delivery systems commonly propose the use of autonomous robotic vehicles to increase scalability and efficiency. The economic inefficiency of collecting accurate prior maps for navigation motivates the use of planning algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Michael Everett , Justin Miller , Jonathan P. How

This paper extends the family of gap-based local planners to unknown dynamic environments through generating provable collision-free properties for hierarchical navigation systems. Existing perception-informed local planners that operate in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Max Asselmeier , Dhruv Ahuja , Abdel Zaro , Ahmad Abuaish , Ye Zhao , Patricio A. Vela

Safe navigation in dynamic environments remains challenging due to uncertain obstacle behaviors and the lack of formal prediction guarantees. We propose two motion planning frameworks that leverage conformal prediction (CP): a global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kaier Liang , Licheng Luo , Yixuan Wang , Mingyu Cai , Cristian Ioan Vasile