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Adaptive autonomous navigation with no prior knowledge of extraneous disturbance is of great significance for quadrotors in a complex and unknown environment. The mainstream that considers external disturbance is to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yuwei Wu , Ziming Ding , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Aiming to promote the wide adoption of safety filters for autonomous aerial robots, this paper presents a safe control architecture designed for seamless integration into widely used open-source autopilots. Departing from methods that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nazar Misyats , Marvin Harms , Morten Nissov , Martin Jacquet , Kostas Alexis

This paper proposes a novel and efficient optimization-based method for generating near time-optimal trajectories for holonomic vehicles navigating through complex but structured environments. The approach aims to solve the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Louis Callens , Bastiaan Vandewal , Ibrahim Ibrahim , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

In a human-robot interaction system, the most important thing to consider is the safety of the user. This must be guaranteed in order to implement a reliable system. The main objective of this paper is to generate a safe motion scheme that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-24 A Gutierrez , V Guda , S Mugisha , C Chevallereau , Damien Chablat

The rapid advancement of high degree-of-freedom (DoF) serial manipulators necessitates the use of swift, sampling-based motion planners for high-dimensional spaces. While sampling-based planners like the Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Theodore M. Belmont , Benjamin A. Christie , Anton Netchaev

We describe a method for formation-change trajectory planning for large quadrotor teams in obstacle-rich environments. Our method decomposes the planning problem into two stages: a discrete planner operating on a graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 James A. Preiss , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

The role of a motion planner is pivotal in quadrotor applications, yet existing methods often struggle to adapt to complex environments, limiting their ability to achieve fast, safe, and robust flight. In this letter, we introduce a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jiaxin Qiu , Qingchen Liu , Jiahu Qin , Dewang Cheng , Yawei Tian , Qichao Ma

We consider the problem of multi-robot path planning in a complex, cluttered environment with the aim of reducing overall congestion in the environment, while avoiding any inter-robot communication or coordination. Such limitations may…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiaolong Wang , Alp Sahin , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast flight in 3-D complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching method to find a safe, kinodynamic feasible and minimum-time initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Boyu Zhou , Fei Gao , Luqi Wang , Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

This paper studies motion planning of a mobile robot under uncertainty. The control objective is to synthesize a {finite-memory} control policy, such that a high-level task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula is satisfied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

The adaptability of soft robots makes them ideal candidates to maneuver through unstructured environments. However, locomotion challenges arise due to complexities in modeling the body mechanics, actuation, and robot-environment dynamics.…

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

This paper investigates a hybrid compositional approach to optimal mission planning for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We consider a time critical search and rescue scenario with two quadrotors in a constrained environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Usman A. Fiaz , John S. Baras

A new path planning method for Mobile Robots (MR) has been developed and implemented. On the one hand, based on the shortest path from the start point to the goal point, this path planner can choose the best moving directions of the MR,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hoc Thai Nguyen , Hai Xuan Le

Navigation and motion control of a robot to a destination are tasks that have historically been performed with the assumption that contact with the environment is harmful. This makes sense for rigid-bodied robots where obstacle collisions…

In this paper, we present a receding-horizon, sampling-based planner capable of reasoning over multimodal policy distributions. By using the cross-entropy method to optimize a multimodal policy under a common cost function, our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mark Gonzales , Ethan Oh , Joseph Moore

The interception of moving targets is a widely studied issue. In this paper, we propose an algorithm of intercepting the moving target with a wheeled mobile robot in a dynamic environment. We first predict the future position of the target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Jialun Li , Chongrong Fang , Yilin Mo

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…

Real-world environments are inherently uncertain, and to operate safely in these environments robots must be able to plan around this uncertainty. In the context of motion planning, we desire systems that can maintain an acceptable level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Charles Dawson , Ashkan Jasour , Andreas Hofmann , Brian Williams

We consider a system consisting of multiple mobile robots in which the user can at any time issue relocation tasks ordering one of the robots to move from its current location to a given destination location. In this paper, we deal with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Michal Čáp , Jiří Vokřínek , Alexander Kleiner