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Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Gathering is a fundamental coordination problem in swarm robotics, where the objective is to bring robots together at a point not known to them at the beginning. While most research focuses on continuous domains, some studies also examine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Abhinav Chakraborty , Pritam Goswami , Satakshi Ghosh

In this paper we address the problem of path planning in an unknown environment with an aerial robot. The main goal is to safely follow the planned trajectory by avoiding obstacles. The proposed approach is suitable for aerial vehicles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ana Batinovic , Jurica Goricanec , Lovro Markovic , Stjepan Bogdan

We tackle the challenges of decentralized multi-robot navigation in environments with nonconvex obstacles, where complete environmental knowledge is unavailable. While reactive methods like Artificial Potential Field (APF) offer simplicity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Joonkyung Kim , Sangjin Park , Wonjong Lee , Woojun Kim , Nakju Doh , Changjoo Nam

Motion planning is a crucial aspect of robot autonomy as it involves identifying a feasible motion path to a destination while taking into consideration various constraints, such as input, safety, and performance constraints, without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Dengyu Zhang , Guobin Zhu , Qingrui Zhang

The gathering over meeting nodes problem asks the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. The robots are deployed on the nodes of an anonymous two-dimensional infinite grid which has a subset of nodes marked as meeting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

This work deals with the problem of gathering $n$ oblivious mobile entities, called robots, at a point (not known beforehand) placed on an infinite triangular grid. The robots are considered to be myopic, i.e., robots have limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Pritam Goswami , Avisek Sharma , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

Robotic trajectory planning in dynamic and cluttered environments remains a critical challenge, particularly when striving for both time efficiency and motion smoothness under actuation constraints. Traditional path planner, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adeetya Uppal , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

We deal with a set of autonomous robots moving on an infinite grid. Those robots are opaque, have limited visibility capabilities, and run using synchronous Look-Compute-Move cycles. They all agree on a common chirality, but have no global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Quentin Bramas , Stephane Devismes , Pascal Lafourcade

In the general pattern formation (GPF) problem, a swarm of simple autonomous, disoriented robots must form a given pattern. The robots' simplicity imply a strong limitation: When the initial configuration is rotationally symmetric, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht , Christopher Hahn , Jonas Harbig , Peter Kling

In multi UAV scenarios,the traditional Artificial Potential Field (APF) method often leads to redundant flight paths and frequent abrupt heading changes due to unreasonable obstacle avoidance path planning,and is highly prone to inter UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yendo Hu , Yiliang Wu , Weican Chen

In this work, we explore emergent behaviors by swarms of anonymous, homogeneous, non-communicating, reactive robots that do not know their global position and have limited relative sensing. We introduce a novel method that enables such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Mario Coppola , Jian Guo , Eberhard K. A. Gill , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

The conventional Artificial Potential Field (APF) is fundamentally limited by the local minima issue and its inability to account for the kinematics of moving obstacles. This paper addresses the critical challenge of autonomous collision…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Nikita Vaibhav Pavle , Shrreya Rajneesh , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

In this paper, we consider the gathering problem of seven autonomous mobile robots on triangular grids. The gathering problem requires that, starting from any connected initial configuration where a subgraph induced by all robot nodes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Masahiro Shibata , Masaki Ohyabu , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yonghwan Kim , Yoshiaki Katayama

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

We propose a new probabilistic pattern formation algorithm for oblivious mobile robots that operates inthe ASYNC model. Unlike previous work, our algorithm makes no assumptions about the local coordinatesystems of robots (the robots do not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Quentin Bramas , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper considers the integration of gap-based local navigation methods with artificial potential field (APF) methods to derive a local planning module for hierarchical navigation systems that has provable collision-free properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ruoyang Xu , Shiyu Feng , Patricio A. Vela

The growing demand for robots to operate effectively in diverse environments necessitates the need for robust real-time anomaly detection techniques during robotic operations. However, deep learning-based models in robotics face significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Taewook Kang , Bum-Jae You , Juyoun Park , Yisoo Lee

Multi-Robot-Arm Motion Planning (M-RAMP) is a challenging problem featuring complex single-agent planning and multi-agent coordination. Recent advancements in extending the popular Conflict-Based Search (CBS) algorithm have made large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yorai Shaoul , Rishi Veerapaneni , Maxim Likhachev , Jiaoyang Li

We consider the problem of filling an unknown area represented by an arbitrary connected graph of $n$ vertices by mobile luminous robots. In this problem, the robots enter the graph one-by-one through a specific vertex, called the Door, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Attila Hideg , Tamas Lukovszki