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Constrained motion planning is a challenging field of research, aiming for computationally efficient methods that can find a collision-free path on the constraint manifolds between a given start and goal configuration. These planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Asfiya Baig , Michael C. Yip

This paper introduces a hybrid algorithm of deep reinforcement learning (RL) and Force-based motion planning (FMP) to solve distributed motion planning problem in dense and dynamic environments. Individually, RL and FMP algorithms each have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Samaneh Hosseini Semnani , Hugh Liu , Michael Everett , Anton de Ruiter , Jonathan P. How

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

In this paper, we propose a neural motion planner (NMP) for learning to drive autonomously in complex urban scenarios that include traffic-light handling, yielding, and interactions with multiple road-users. Towards this goal, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenyuan Zeng , Wenjie Luo , Simon Suo , Abbas Sadat , Bin Yang , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

This paper describes Motion Planning Networks (MPNet), a computationally efficient, learning-based neural planner for solving motion planning problems. MPNet uses neural networks to learn general near-optimal heuristics for path planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Yinglong Miao , Anthony Simeonov , Michael C. Yip

Robot motion planning has made vast advances over the past decades, but the challenge remains: robot mobile manipulators struggle to plan long-range whole-body motion in common household environments in real time, because of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yunfan Lu , Yuchen Ma , David Hsu , Panpan Cai

The presence of task constraints imposes a significant challenge to motion planning. Despite all recent advancements, existing algorithms are still computationally expensive for most planning problems. In this paper, we present Constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Austin Choe , Michael C. Yip

Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jacob J. Johnson , Uday S. Kalra , Ankit Bhatia , Linjun Li , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Prior flow matching methods in robotics have primarily learned velocity fields to morph one distribution of trajectories into another. In this work, we extend flow matching to capture second-order trajectory dynamics, incorporating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khang Nguyen , An T. Le , Tien Pham , Manfred Huber , Jan Peters , Minh Nhat Vu

A robot self-model is a task-agnostic representation of the robot's physical morphology that can be used for motion planning tasks in the absence of a classical geometric kinematic model. In particular, when the latter is hard to engineer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lennart Schulze , Hod Lipson

State-of-the-art generalist manipulation policies have enabled the deployment of robotic manipulators in unstructured human environments. However, these frameworks struggle in cluttered environments primarily because they utilize auxiliary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Davood Soleymanzadeh , Ivan Lopez-Sanchez , Hao Su , Yunzhu Li , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Trajectory planning is a fundamental problem in robotics. It facilitates a wide range of applications in navigation and motion planning, control, and multi-agent coordination. Trajectory planning is a difficult problem due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Zihan Yu , Yuqing Tang

This paper proposes a novel online motion planning approach to robot navigation based on nonlinear model predictive control. Common approaches rely on pure Euclidean optimization parameters. In robot navigation, however, state spaces often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Christoph Rösmann , Artemi Makarow , Torsten Bertram

Neural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) provide a differentiable environment representation to readily obtain collision checks and well-defined gradients for robot navigation tasks. However, updating neural SDFs as the scene evolves entails…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 S. Talha Bukhari , Daniel Lawson , Ahmed H. Qureshi

We introduce Neural Riemannian Motion Fields (NRMF), a novel 3D generative human motion prior that enables robust, temporally consistent, and physically plausible 3D motion recovery. Unlike existing VAE or diffusion-based methods, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhengdi Yu , Simone Foti , Linguang Zhang , Amy Zhao , Cem Keskin , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Tolga Birdal

In practical applications, the unpredictable movement of obstacles and the imprecise state observation of robots introduce significant uncertainties for the swarm of robots, especially in cluster environments. However, existing methods are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Peng Liu , Pengming Zhu , Zhiwen Zeng , Xuekai Qiu , Yu Wang , Huimin Lu

We present a centralized algorithmic framework for solving multi-robot path planning problems in general, two-dimensional, continuous environments while minimizing globally the task completion time. The framework obtains high levels of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Jingjin Yu , Daniela Rus

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

The paper surveys topological problems relevant to the motion planning problem of robotics and includes some new results and constructions. First we analyse the notion of topological complexity of configuration spaces which is responsible…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Michael Farber

Motion planning is a key tool that allows robots to navigate through an environment without collisions. The problem of robot motion planning has been studied in great detail over the last several decades, with researchers initially focusing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Luka Petrović