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This paper proposes an integrated approach for the safe and efficient control of mobile robots in dynamic and uncertain environments. The approach consists of two key steps: one-shot multimodal motion prediction to anticipate motions of…

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In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

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In this paper, the trajectory planning problem for autonomous rendezvous and docking between a controlled spacecraft and a tumbling target is addressed. The use of a variable planning horizon is proposed in order to construct an appropriate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Mirko Leomanni , Renato Quartullo , Gianni Bianchini , Andrea Garulli , Antonio Giannitrapani

Approximate dynamic programming has been investigated and used as a method to approximately solve optimal regulation problems. However, the extension of this technique to optimal tracking problems for continuous time nonlinear systems has…

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With the autonomy of aerial robots advances in recent years, autonomous drone racing has drawn increasing attention. In a professional pilot competition, a skilled operator always controls the drone to agilely avoid obstacles in aggressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zhichao Han , Zhepei Wang , Neng Pan , Yi Lin , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Autonomous target tracking with quadrotors has wide applications in many scenarios, such as cinematographic follow-up shooting or suspect chasing. Target motion prediction is necessary when designing the tracking planner. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Qiuyu Ren , Huan Yu , Jiajun Dai , Zhi Zheng , Jun Meng , Li Xu , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Aerial robots can enhance construction site productivity by autonomously handling inspection and mapping tasks. However, ensuring safe navigation near human workers remains challenging. While navigation in static environments has been well…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhefan Xu , Hanyu Jin , Xinming Han , Haoyu Shen , Kenji Shimada

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

Motion planning is an essential process for the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where they need to adapt to obstacles and different structures of their operating environment to reach the goal. This paper presents an optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Duy-Nam Bui , Thu Hang Khuat , Manh Duong Phung , Thuan-Hoang Tran , Dong LT Tran

Pursuing a drifting target in a turbulent flow is an extremely difficult task whenever the searcher has limited propulsion and maneuvering capabilities. Even in the case when the relative distance between pursuer and target stays below the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-02 Chiara Calascibetta , Luca Biferale , Francesco Borra , Antonio Celani , Massimo Cencini

Operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex environments that feature dynamic obstacles and external disturbances poses significant challenges, primarily due to the inherent uncertainty in such scenarios. Additionally, inaccurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tianyu Liu , Fu Zhang , Fei Gao , Jia Pan

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

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Online generation of collision free trajectories is of prime importance for autonomous navigation. Dynamic environments, robot motion and sensing uncertainties adds further challenges to collision avoidance systems. This paper presents an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

Obstacle avoidance path planning for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, is rarely addressed in most flight path planning schemes, despite obstacles being a realistic condition. Obstacle avoidance can also be energy-intensive,…

Grasping in dynamic environments presents a unique set of challenges. A stable and reachable grasp can become unreachable and unstable as the target object moves, motion planning needs to be adaptive and in real time, the delay in…

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This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

We present an algorithm, based on the Differential Dynamic Programming framework, to handle trajectory optimization problems in which the horizon is determined online rather than fixed a priori. This algorithm exhibits exact one-step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Kyle Stachowicz , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Motivated by the problem of pursuit-evasion, we present a motion planning framework that combines energy-based diffusion models with artificial potential fields for robust real time trajectory generation in complex environments. Our…

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