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Coverage path planning (CPP) is the task of computing an optimal path within a region to completely scan or survey an area of interest using one or multiple mobile robots. Robots equipped with sensors and cameras can collect vast amounts of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jahid Chowdhury Choton , William H. Hsu

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

This paper presents a method for constrained motion planning from vision, which enables a robot to move its end-effector over an observed surface, given start and destination points. The robot has no prior knowledge of the surface shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 T. Pardi , V. Ortenzi , C. Fairbairn , T. Pipe , A. M. Ghalamzan E. , R. Stolkin

Coverage path planning (CPP) is the problem of finding a path that covers the entire free space of a confined area, with applications ranging from robotic lawn mowing to search-and-rescue. When the environment is unknown, the path needs to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Arvi Jonnarth , Jie Zhao , Michael Felsberg

Many robotic applications, such as sanding, polishing, wiping and sensor scanning, require a manipulator to dexterously cover a surface using its end-effector. In this paper, we provide an efficient and effective coverage path planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yeping Wang , Michael Gleicher

In this paper we consider the coverage control problem for a team of wire-traversing robots. The two-dimensional motion of robots moving in a planar environment has to be projected to one-dimensional manifolds representing the wires.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt

A common way to manipulate heavy objects is to maintain at least one point of the object in contact with the environment during the manipulation. When the object has a cylindrical shape or, in general, a curved edge, not only sliding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maede Boroji , Vahid Danesh , Imin Kao , Amin Fakhari

This article addresses the challenge of UAV survey coverage path planning for areas that are complex concave polygons, containing exclusion zones or obstacles. While standard drone path planners typically generate coverage paths for simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Shadman Tajwar Shahid , Shah Md. Ahasan Siddique , Md. Mahidul Alam

This paper presents a novel algorithm, called MRRT, which uses multiple rapidly-exploring random trees for fast online replanning of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments with moving obstacles. The proposed algorithm is built upon the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Zongyuan Shen , James P. Wilson , Ryan Harvey , Shalabh Gupta

This paper explores an eclectic range of path-planning methodologies engineered for rolling surfaces. Our focus is on the kinematic intricacies of rolling contact systems, which are investigated through a motion planning lens. Beyond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seyed Amir Tafrishi , Mikhail Svinin , Kenji Tahara

If we give a robot the task of moving an object from its current position to another location in an unknown environment, the robot must explore the map, identify all types of obstacles, and then determine the best route to complete the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

Real-time motion planning is a vital function of robotic systems. Different from existing roadmap algorithms which first determine the free space and then determine the collision-free path, researchers recently proposed several convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Chaoyi Sun , Qing Li , Li Li

The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use of autonomous robot systems to automate tasks in the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christian Friedrich , Akos Csiszar , Armin Lechler , Alexander Verl

We present a centralized algorithm for labeled, disk-shaped Multi-Robot Path Planning (MPP) in a continuous planar workspace with polygonal boundaries. Our method automatically transform the continuous problem into a discrete, graph-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Liang He , Zherong Pan , Kiril Solovey , Biao Jia , Dinesh Manocha

Coverage Path Planning involves visiting every unoccupied state in an environment with obstacles. In this paper, we explore this problem in environments which are initially unknown to the agent, for purposes of simulating the task of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Robert Chuchro

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

Recently, centralized receding horizon online multi-robot coverage path planning algorithms have shown remarkable scalability in thoroughly exploring large, complex, unknown workspaces with many robots. In a horizon, the path planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ratijit Mitra , Indranil Saha

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

Robots operate in environments with varying implicit structure. For instance, a helicopter flying over terrain encounters a very different arrangement of obstacles than a robotic arm manipulating objects on a cluttered table top.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Sanjiban Choudhury , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Sebastian Scherer

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