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Generating obstacle-free trajectories for robotic manipulators in unstructured and cluttered environments remains a significant challenge. Existing motion planning methods often require additional computational effort to generate the final…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongliang Wang , Hamidreza Kasaei

We introduce a learning-guided motion planning framework that generates seed trajectories using a diffusion model for trajectory optimization. Given a workspace, our method approximates the configuration space (C-space) obstacles through an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Mingyo Seo , Yoonyoung Cho , Yoonchang Sung , Peter Stone , Yuke Zhu , Beomjoon Kim

Automating design minimizes errors, accelerates the design process, and reduces cost. However, automating robot design is challenging due to recursive constraints, multiple design objectives, and cross-domain design complexity possibly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Andrew Wilhelm , Nils Napp

Trajectory planning for robotic manipulators operating in dynamic orbital debris environments poses significant challenges due to complex obstacle movements and uncertainties. This paper presents Deep Koopman RRT (DK-RRT), an advanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Kangtong Mo , Boli Zhang , Dezhi Yu

Safety is a core challenge of autonomous robot motion planning, especially in the presence of dynamic and uncertain obstacles. Many recent results use learning and deep learning-based motion planners and prediction modules to predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sleiman Safaoui , Tyler H. Summers

Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, the recurrent planning of their configurations introduces new challenges, particularly in generating optimized, coordinated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Loris Schneider , Marc Ungen , Elias Huber , Jan-Felix Klein

We present a continuous-time collision detection algorithm for quickly detecting whether certain polynomial trajectories in time intersect with convex obstacles. The algorithm is used in conjunction with an existing multicopter trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Nathan Bucki , Mark W. Mueller

Safe and high-speed navigation is a key enabling capability for real world deployment of robotic systems. A significant limitation of existing approaches is the computational bottleneck associated with explicit mapping and the limited field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kapil D. Katyal , Adam Polevoy , Joseph Moore , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek

Collision-free motion planning in complex outdoor environments relies heavily on perceiving the surroundings through exteroceptive sensors. A widely used approach represents the environment as a voxelized Euclidean distance field, where…

The next generation of large-scale spectroscopic survey experiments such as DESI, will use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed on a focal plate. In order to maximize the observing time with this robotic system we need to move in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Laleh Makarem , Jean-Paul Kneib , Denis Gillet , Hannes Bleuler , Mohamed Bouri , Philipp Hörler , Laurent Jenni , Francisco Prada , Justo Sanchez

Motion planning is a difficult problem in robot control. The complexity of the problem is directly related to the dimension of the robot's configuration space. While in many theoretical calculations and practical applications the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Felix Wiebe , Shivesh Kumar , Daniel Harnack , Malte Langosz , Hendrik Wöhrle , Frank Kirchner

3D coverage path planning for UAVs is a crucial problem in diverse practical applications. However, existing methods have shown unsatisfactory system simplicity, computation efficiency, and path quality in large and complex scenes. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Chen Feng , Haojia Li , Mingjie Zhang , Xinyi Chen , Boyu Zhou , Shaojie Shen

Probabilistic collision detection (PCD) is essential in motion planning for robots operating in unstructured environments, where considering sensing uncertainty helps prevent damage. Existing PCD methods mainly used simplified geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaoli Wang , Sipu Ruan , Xin Meng , Gregory Chirikjian

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…

We introduce an advanced, swift pattern recognition strategy for various multiple robotics during curve negotiation. This method, leveraging a sophisticated k-means clustering-enhanced Support Vector Machine algorithm, distinctly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rui Liu , Xuanzhen Xu , Yuwei Shen , Armando Zhu , Chang Yu , Tianjian Chen , Ye Zhang

The path planning problems arising in manipulation planning and in task and motion planning settings are typically repetitive: the same manipulator moves in a space that only changes slightly. Despite this potential for reuse of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Valentin N. Hartmann , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint

The paper focuses on collision-inclusive motion planning for impact-resilient mobile robots. We propose a new deformation recovery and replanning strategy to handle collisions that may occur at run-time. Contrary to collision avoidance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhouyu Lu , Zhichao Liu , Konstantinos Karydis

This paper contributes a method to design a novel navigation planner exploiting a learning-based collision prediction network. The neural network is tasked to predict the collision cost of each action sequence in a predefined motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Huan Nguyen , Sondre Holm Fyhn , Paolo De Petris , Kostas Alexis

Tendon-driven continuum robots (TDCRs), with their flexible backbones, offer the advantage of being used for navigating complex, cluttered environments. However, to do so, they typically require multiple segments, often leading to complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Priyanka Rao , Oren Salzman , Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

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