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In this paper, we propose a lightweight yet effective Topology Guided Kinodynamic planner (TGK-Planner) for quadrotor aggressive flights with limited onboard computing resources. The proposed system follows the traditional hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hongkai Ye , Xin Zhou , Zhepei Wang , Chao Xu , Jian Chu , Fei Gao

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

Offline reference trajectories for active target tracking are needed both for building multi-modal tracking datasets and for benchmarking online tracking planners under repeatable conditions. We present Track A star (TA star), an offline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hanxuan Chen , Kangli Wang , Ji Pei

Object Goal Navigation requires a robot to find and navigate to an instance of a target object class in a previously unseen environment. Our framework incrementally builds a semantic map of the environment over time, and then repeatedly…

In many mobile robotics scenarios, such as drone racing, the goal is to generate a trajectory that passes through multiple waypoints in minimal time. This problem is referred to as time-optimal planning. State-of-the-art approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza

Trajectory planning is a critical component in ensuring the safety, stability, and efficiency of autonomous vehicles. While existing trajectory planning methods have achieved progress, they often suffer from high computational costs,…

Autonomous motion planning under unknown nonlinear dynamics presents significant challenges. An agent needs to continuously explore the system dynamics to acquire its properties, such as reachability, in order to guide system navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zhiquan Zhang , Gokul Puthumanaillam , Manav Vora , Melkior Ornik

This paper proposes a fast and accurate trajectory planning algorithm for autonomous parking. Nominally, an optimal control problem should be formulated to describe this scheme, but the dimensionality of the optimal control problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Bai Li , Tankut Acarman , Qi Kong , Youmin Zhang

Generating obstacle-free trajectories for robotic manipulators in unstructured and cluttered environments remains a significant challenge. Existing motion planning methods often require additional computational effort to generate the final…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongliang Wang , Hamidreza Kasaei

Quadrotors with large thrust-to-weight ratios are able to track aggressive trajectories with sharp turns and high accelerations. In this work, we develop a search-based trajectory planning approach that exploits the quadrotor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Sikang Liu , Kartik Mohta , Nikolay Atanasov , Vijay Kumar

Trajectory Planning is a crucial word in Modern & Advanced Robotics. It's a way of generating a smooth and feasible path for the robot to follow over time. The process primarily takes several factors to generate the path, such as velocity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Arunabh Bora

Path planning in obstacle-dense environments is a key challenge in robotics, and depends on inferring scene attributes and associated uncertainties. We present a multiple-hypothesis path planner designed to navigate complex environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Brian H. Wang , Beatriz Asfora , Rachel Zheng , Aaron Peng , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

Accurate vehicle trajectory prediction is an unsolved problem in autonomous driving with various open research questions. State-of-the-art approaches regress trajectories either in a one-shot or step-wise manner. Although one-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Faris Janjoš , Max Keller , Maxim Dolgov , J. Marius Zöllner

Trajectory prediction (TP) plays an important role in supporting the decision-making of Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs). Traditional TP methods are deterministic and physics-based, with parameters that are calibrated using aircraft…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Nick Pepper , George De Ath , Marc Thomas , Richard Everson , Tim Dodwell

In this article, a globally convergent sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is developed for multi-objective optimization problems with inequality type constraints. A feasible descent direction is obtained using a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary , Geetanjali Panda

Trajectory prediction with uncertainty is a critical and challenging task for autonomous driving. Nowadays, we can easily access sensor data represented in multiple views. However, cross-view consistency has not been evaluated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zijian Song , Huikun Bi , Ruisi Zhang , Tianlu Mao , Zhaoqi Wang

Predicting flight trajectories is a research area that holds significant merit. In this paper, we propose a data-driven learning framework, that leverages the predictive and feature extraction capabilities of the mixture models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jun Xiang , Jun Chen

Projection methods aim to reduce the dimensionality of the optimization instance, thereby improving the scalability of high-dimensional problems. Recently, Sakaue and Oki proposed a data-driven approach for linear programs (LPs), where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Anh Tuan Nguyen , Viet Anh Nguyen

Modeling has been created for a Space-to-Surface system defined for an optimal trajectory for targeting in terminal phase. The modeling includes models for simulation atmosphere, speed of sound, aerodynamic flight and navigation by an…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Serge Gornev

We present CosFly, a box-structured planning and multimodal simulation pipeline for aerial tracking, together with CosFly-Track, a large-scale UAV dataset for dynamic target tracking across diverse environments including urban centers,…