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Autonomous mobile robots (e.g., warehouse logistics robots) often need to traverse complex, obstacle-rich, and changing environments to reach multiple fixed goals (e.g., warehouse shelves). Traditional motion planners need to calculate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuanjie Lu , Dibyendu Das , Erion Plaku , Xuesu Xiao

Character animation in real-world scenarios necessitates a variety of constraints, such as trajectories, key-frames, interactions, etc. Existing methodologies typically treat single or a finite set of these constraint(s) as separate control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanchao Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Shaoli Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ying Shan

This work presents a motion planning framework for robotic manipulators that computes collision-free paths directly in image space. The generated paths can then be tracked using vision-based control, eliminating the need for an explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Sreejani Chatterjee , Abhinav Gandhi , Berk Calli , Constantinos Chamzas

This letter presents a novel coarse-to-fine motion planning framework for robotic manipulation in cluttered, unmodeled environments. The system integrates a dual-camera perception setup with a B-spline-based model predictive control (MPC)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chen Cai , Ernesto Dickel Saraiva , Ya-jun Pan , Steven Liu

Uncertainty is prevalent in robotics. Due to measurement noise and complex dynamics, we cannot estimate the exact system and environment state. Since conservative motion planners are not guaranteed to find a safe control strategy in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Laura Lützow , Yue Meng , Andres Chavez Armijos , Chuchu Fan

Algorithms for motion planning in unknown environments are generally limited in their ability to reason about the structure of the unobserved environment. As such, current methods generally navigate unknown environments by relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Amine Elhafsi , Boris Ivanovic , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

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

Neural network (NN)-based methods have emerged as an attractive approach for robot motion planning due to strong learning capabilities of NN models and their inherently high parallelism. Despite the current development in this direction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Xiao Zang , Miao Yin , Lingyi Huang , Jingjin Yu , Saman Zonouz , Bo Yuan

The paper presents a complete pipeline for learning continuous motion control policies for a mobile robot when only a non-differentiable physics simulator of robot-terrain interactions is available. The multi-modal state estimation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Pecka , Karel Zimmermann , Matěj Petrlík , Tomáš Svoboda

Effective motion planning in high dimensional spaces is a long-standing open problem in robotics. One class of traditional motion planning algorithms corresponds to potential-based motion planning. An advantage of potential based motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yunhao Luo , Chen Sun , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Yilun Du

Generating accurate and efficient predictions for the motion of the humans present in the scene is key to the development of effective motion planning algorithms for robots moving in promiscuous areas, where wrong planning decisions could…

Collision-free navigation in cluttered environments with static and dynamic obstacles is essential for many multi-robot tasks. Dynamic obstacles may also be interactive, i.e., their behavior varies based on the behavior of other entities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework that can learn to make visual predictions about the motion of a robotic agent from raw video frames. Our proposed motion prediction network (PROM-Net) can learn in a completely unsupervised…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Meenakshi Sarkar , Prabhu Pradhan , Debasish Ghose

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

As autonomous driving systems being deployed to millions of vehicles, there is a pressing need of improving the system's scalability, safety and reducing the engineering cost. A realistic, scalable, and practical simulator of the driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yihan Hu , Siqi Chai , Zhening Yang , Jingyu Qian , Kun Li , Wenxin Shao , Haichao Zhang , Wei Xu , Qiang Liu

Generating collision-free motion in dynamic, partially observable environments is a fundamental challenge for robotic manipulators. Classical motion planners can compute globally optimal trajectories but require full environment knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jiahui Yang , Jason Jingzhou Liu , Yulong Li , Youssef Khaky , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Indoor motion planning focuses on solving the problem of navigating an agent through a cluttered environment. To date, quite a lot of work has been done in this field, but these methods often fail to find the optimal balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shivam Sood , Jaskaran Singh Sodhi , Parv Maheshwari , Karan Uppal , Debashish Chakravarty

Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Evan Atherton , Bruno Roy

Numerical optimization has become a popular approach to plan smooth motion trajectories for robots. However, when sharing space with humans, balancing properly safety, comfort and efficiency still remains challenging. This is notably the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Philipp Kratzer , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

Developing a safe and efficient collision avoidance policy for multiple robots is challenging in the decentralized scenarios where each robot generate its paths without observing other robots' states and intents. While other distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Pinxin Long , Tingxiang Fan , Xinyi Liao , Wenxi Liu , Hao Zhang , Jia Pan