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The traditional Artificial Potential Field (APF) method exhibits limitations in its force distribution: excessive attraction when UAVs are far from the target may cause collisions with obstacles, while insufficient attraction near the goal…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Bo Ma , Yi Ji , Liyong Fang

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are efficient tools for diverse tasks such as electronic reconnaissance, agricultural operations and disaster relief. In the complex three-dimensional (3D) environments, the path planning with obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junteng Mao , Ziye Jia , Hanzhi Gu , Chenyu Shi , Haomin Shi , Lijun He , Qihui Wu

This paper proposes a framework for 3D obstacle avoidance in the presence of partial observability of environment obstacles. The method focuses on the utility of the Artificial Potential Function (APF) controller in a practical setting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shakeeb Ahmad , Zachary N. Sunberg , J. Sean Humbert

Cooperative path-finding in multi-agent systems demands scalable solutions to navigate agents from their origins to destinations without conflict. Despite the breadth of research, scalability remains hampered by increased computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jinmingwu Jiang , Kaigui Wu , Haiyang Liu , Ren Zhang , Jingxin Liu , Yong He , Xipeng Kou

This paper presents a robust computationally efficient real-time collision avoidance algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), namely Memory-based Wall Following-Artificial Potential Field (MWF-APF) method. The new algorithm switches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Han Wang , Muqing Cao , Hao Jiang , Lihua Xie

Autonomous drone swarms are a burgeoning technology with significant applications in the field of mapping, inspection, transportation and monitoring. To complete a task, each drone has to accomplish a sub-goal within the context of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Rohith Gandhi Ganesan , Samantha Kappagoda , Giuseppe Loianno , David K. A. Mordecai

Autonomous driving has garnered significant attention for its potential to improve safety, traffic efficiency, and user convenience. However, the dynamic and complex nature of interactive driving poses significant challenges, including the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Qinghao Li , Zhen Tian , Xiaodan Wang , Jinming Yang , Zhihao Lin

As the demand for transportation through waterways continues to rise, the number of vessels plying the waters has correspondingly increased. This has resulted in a greater number of accidents and collisions between ships, some of which lead…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aditya Kailas Jadhav , Anantha Raj Pandi , Abhilash Somayajula

Accurate and interpretable motion planning is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) navigating complex and uncertain environments. While recent end-to-end occupancy prediction methods have improved environmental understanding, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shuqi Shen , Junjie Yang , Hongliang Lu , Hui Zhong , Qiming Zhang , Xinhu Zheng

Path planning is critical for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to determine the optimal route while considering constraints and objectives. The potential field (PF) approach has become prevalent in path planning due to its simple structure and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Pengfei Lin , Ehsan Javanmardi , Jin Nakazato , Manabu Tsukada

Artificial Potential Field (APF) methods are widely used for reactive flocking control, but they often suffer from challenges such as deadlocks and local minima, especially in the presence of obstacles. Existing solutions to address these…

This paper presents a method for online trajectory planning in known environments. The proposed algorithm is a fusion of sampling-based techniques and model-based optimization via quadratic programming. The former is used to efficiently…

Robotic manipulators operating in dynamic and uncertain environments require efficient motion planning to navigate obstacles while maintaining smooth trajectories. Velocity Potential Field (VPF) planners offer real-time adaptability but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ho Minh Quang Ngo , Dac Dang Khoa Nguyen , Dinh Tung Le , Gavin Paul

This paper introduces a real-time algorithm for navigating complex unknown environments cluttered with movable obstacles. Our algorithm achieves fast, adaptable routing by actively attempting to manipulate obstacles during path planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Botao He , Guofei Chen , Wenshan Wang , Ji Zhang , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Essential tasks in autonomous driving includes environment perception, detection and tracking, path planning and action control. This paper focus on path planning, which is one of the challenging task as it needs to find optimal path in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sugirtha T , Pranav S , Nitin Benjamin Dasiah , Sridevi M

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star(RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacle's geometry in a given environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Learning-based methods are increasingly popular for search algorithms in single-criterion optimization problems. In contrast, for multiple-criteria optimization there are significantly fewer approaches despite the existence of numerous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Kevin Osanlou , Christophe Guettier , Andrei Bursuc , Tristan Cazenave , Eric Jacopin

The paper proposes a reliable and robust planning solution to the long range robotic navigation problem in extremely cluttered environments. A two-layer planning architecture is proposed that leverages both the environment map and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Shakeeb Ahmad , Andrew B. Mills , Eugene R. Rush , Eric W. Frew , J. Sean Humbert

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is concerned with planning collision-free paths for a team of agents from their start to goal locations in an environment cluttered with obstacles. Typical approaches for MAPF consider the locations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 David Vainshtein , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

In unstructured environments the best path is not always the shortest, but needs to consider various objectives like energy efficiency, risk of failure or scientific outcome. This paper proposes a global planner, based on the A* algorithm,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Julia Richter , Hendrik Kolvenbach , Giorgio Valsecchi , Marco Hutter