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Imitation learning is a promising approach for training humanoid robots to both walk and manipulate, but it requires a large number of demonstrations, which are time-intensive and difficult to collect via teleoperation. Existing…

This paper presents a data-driven decentralized trajectory optimization approach for multi-robot motion planning in dynamic environments. When navigating in a shared space, each robot needs accurate motion predictions of neighboring robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Hai Zhu , Francisco Martinez Claramunt , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

Learned Neural Network based policies have shown promising results for robot navigation. However, most of these approaches fall short of being used on a real robot due to the extensive simulated training they require. These simulations lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ayzaan Wahid , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee

End-to-end learning for autonomous navigation has received substantial attention recently as a promising method for reducing modeling error. However, its data complexity, especially around generalization to unseen environments, is high. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Xiangyun Meng , Nathan Ratliff , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox

This paper presents a novel method to generate spatial constraints for motion planning in dynamic environments. Motion planning methods for autonomous driving and mobile robots typically need to rely on the spatial constraints imposed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Han Hu , Peyman Yadmellat

Industrial manipulators are normally operated in cluttered environments, making safe motion planning important. Furthermore, the presence of model-uncertainties make safe motion planning more difficult. Therefore, in practice the speed is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Bernhard Wullt , Johannes Köhler , Per Mattsson , Mikeal Norrlöf , Thomas B. Schön

We propose a real-time implementable motion planning framework for cooperative object transportation by nonholonomic mobile manipulator robots (MMRs) in dynamic environments. Our global planner finds a path from start to goal through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Keshab Patra , Arpita Sinha , Anirban Guha

Recent innovations in autonomous drones have facilitated time-optimal flight in single-drone configurations, and enhanced maneuverability in multi-drone systems by applying optimal control and learning-based methods. However, few studies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xian Wang , Jin Zhou , Yuanli Feng , Jiahao Mei , Jiming Chen , Shuo Li

In this paper, a kinematic motion planning algorithm for cooperative spatial payload manipulation is presented. A hierarchical approach is introduced to compute real-time collision-free motion plans for a formation of mobile manipulator…

Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robotic manipulators. These methods enable planning directly from sensor observations without relying on a privileged collision checker…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Davood Soleymanzadeh , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Collision-free motion planning for redundant robot manipulators in complex environments is yet to be explored. Although recent advancements at the intersection of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and robotics have highlighted its potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Fengkang Ying , Hanwen Zhang , Haozhe Wang , Huishi Huang , Marcelo H. Ang

Generative navigation policies have made rapid progress in improving end-to-end learned navigation. Despite their promising results, this paradigm has two structural problems. First, the sampled trajectories exist in an abstract, unscaled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abhijeet Nayak , Débora Oliveira Makowski , Samiran Gode , Cordelia Schmid , Wolfram Burgard

Navigating unknown environments with a single RGB camera is challenging, as the lack of depth information prevents reliable collision-checking. While some methods use estimated depth to build collision maps, we found that depth estimates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Basant Sharma , Prajyot Jadhav , Pranjal Paul , K. Madhava Krishna , Arun Kumar Singh

High-speed, low-latency obstacle avoidance that is insensitive to sensor noise is essential for enabling multiple decentralized robots to function reliably in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other distributed multi-agent collision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Motion generation in cluttered, dense, and dynamic environments is a central topic in robotics, rendered as a multi-objective decision-making problem. Current approaches trade-off between safety and performance. On the one hand, reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kay Hansel , Julen Urain , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

In this paper, we present a decentralized sensor-level collision avoidance policy for multi-robot systems, which shows promising results in practical applications. In particular, our policy directly maps raw sensor measurements to an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan

Classical manipulator motion planners work across different robot embodiments. However they plan on a pre-specified static environment representation, and are not scalable to unseen dynamic environments. Neural Motion Planners (NMPs) are an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabin Kumar Rath , Nakul Gopalan

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

Planning robust robot manipulation requires good forward models that enable robust plans to be found. This work shows how to achieve this using a forward model learned from robot data to plan push manipulations. We explore learning methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Ermano Arruda , Michael J Mathew , Marek Kopicki , Michael Mistry , Morteza Azad , Jeremy L Wyatt

We present a novel approach to generate collision-free trajectories for a robot operating in close proximity with a human obstacle in an occluded environment. The self-occlusions of the robot can significantly reduce the accuracy of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Jae Sung Park , Dinesh Manocha