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Path planning and collision avoidance are challenging in complex and highly variable environments due to the limited horizon of events. In literature, there are multiple model- and learning-based approaches that require significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Carlo Tiseo , Vladimir Ivan , Wolfgang Merkt , Ioannis Havoutis , Michael Mistry , Sethu Vijayakumar

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

We present a closed-loop multi-arm motion planner that is scalable and flexible with team size. Traditional multi-arm robot systems have relied on centralized motion planners, whose runtimes often scale exponentially with team size, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Huy Ha , Jingxi Xu , Shuran Song

Multi-agent path finding in dynamic crowded environments is of great academic and practical value for multi-robot systems in the real world. To improve the effectiveness and efficiency of communication and learning process during path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Huifeng Guan , Yuan Gao , Min Zhao , Yong Yang , Fuqin Deng , Tin Lun Lam

Industrial robots are widely used in diverse manufacturing environments. Nonetheless, how to enable robots to automatically plan trajectories for changing tasks presents a considerable challenge. Further complexities arise when robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Siddharth Singh , Tian Yu , Qing Chang , John Karigiannis , Shaopeng Liu

Multi-Agent Path Finding has been widely studied in the past few years due to its broad application in the field of robotics and AI. However, previous solvers rely on several simplifying assumptions. They limit their applicability in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Licheng Wen , Zhen Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

Diffusion models have recently been successfully applied to a wide range of robotics applications for learning complex multi-modal behaviors from data. However, prior works have mostly been confined to single-robot and small-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Shivam Vats , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Planning smooth and energy-efficient motions for wheeled mobile robots is a central task for applications ranging from autonomous driving to service and intralogistic robotics. Over the past decades, a wide variety of motion planners, steer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Eric Heiden , Luigi Palmieri , Kai O. Arras , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Sven Koenig

We propose a real-time implementable motion planning framework for cooperative object transportation by nonholonomic mobile manipulator robots (MMRs) in dynamic environments. Our global planner finds a path from start to goal through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Keshab Patra , Arpita Sinha , Anirban Guha

Hybrid locomotion, which combines multiple modalities of locomotion within a single robot, enables robots to carry out complex tasks in diverse environments. This paper presents a novel method for planning multi-modal locomotion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 H. J. Terry Suh , Xiaobin Xiong , Andrew Singletary , Aaron D. Ames , Joel W. Burdick

As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability to reach the target without any collisions, but also should try to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jian Zhang

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) finds various applications in fields such as traffic management, airport operations, and warehouse automation. In many of these environments, differential drive robots are commonly used. These robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jingtian Yan , Jiaoyang Li

Motion planning in environments with multiple agents is critical to many important autonomous applications such as autonomous vehicles and assistive robots. This paper considers the problem of motion planning, where the controlled agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuxiao Chen , Ugo Rosolia , Chuchu Fan , Aaron D. Ames , Richard Murray

This work presents a decentralized motion planning framework for addressing the task of multi-robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. A custom simulator was developed in order to experimentally investigate the navigation problem…

In this paper we address the multi-agent collaborative object transportation problem in a partially known environment with obstacles under a specified goal condition. We propose a leader follower approach for two mobile manipulators…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Sumanta Ghosh , Subhajit Nath , Sarvesh Sortee , Lokesh Kumar , Titas Bera

Autonomous vehicles that operate in urban environments shall comply with existing rules and reason about the interactions with other decision-making agents. In this paper, we introduce a decentralized and communication-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lucas Streichenberg , Elia Trevisan , Jen Jen Chung , Roland Siegwart , Javier Alonso-Mora

This work presents a computationally lightweight motion planner for over-actuated platforms. For this purpose, a general state-space model for mobile platforms with several kinematic chains is defined, which considers non-linearities and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-26 G. J. Paz-Delgado , C. J. Pérez-del-Pulgar , M. Azkarate , F. Kirchner , A. García-Cerezo

A flexible operation of multiple robotic manipulators in a shared workspace requires an online trajectory planning with static and dynamic collision avoidance. In this work, we propose a real-time capable motion control algorithm, based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Nigora Gafur , Gajanan Kanagalingam , Martin Ruskowski

We present a complete framework for fast motion planning of non-holonomic autonomous mobile robots in highly complex but structured environments. Conventional grid-based planners struggle with scalability, while many kinematically-feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia , Sebastiaan Wyns , Sonia De Santis , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré