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Path planning in robotics often involves solving continuously valued, high-dimensional problems. Popular informed approaches include graph-based searches, such as A*, and sampling-based methods, such as Informed RRT*, which utilize informed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Yu Zhang , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

This paper presents a novel algorithm, called MRRT, which uses multiple rapidly-exploring random trees for fast online replanning of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments with moving obstacles. The proposed algorithm is built upon the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Zongyuan Shen , James P. Wilson , Ryan Harvey , Shalabh Gupta

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithms have been applied successfully to challenging robot motion planning and under-actuated nonlinear control problems. However a fundamental limitation of the RRT approach is the slow convergence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mathew Mithra Noel , Akshay Chawla

The efficiency of sampling-based motion planning brings wide application in autonomous mobile robots. The conventional rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm and its variants have gained significant successes, but there are still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ying Zhang , Heyong Wang , Maoliang Yin , Jiankun Wang , Changchun Hua

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hichem Cheriet , Badra Khellat Kihel , Samira Chouraqui

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and constraints. It is often desirable for this path to also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan D. Gammell , Marlin P. Strub

This work presents a novel data-driven path planning algorithm named Instruction-Guided Probabilistic Roadmap (IG-PRM). Despite the recent development and widespread use of mobile robot navigation, the safe and effective travels of mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jiaqi Bao , Ryo Yonetani

A new path planning method for Mobile Robots (MR) has been developed and implemented. On the one hand, based on the shortest path from the start point to the goal point, this path planner can choose the best moving directions of the MR,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hoc Thai Nguyen , Hai Xuan Le

Efficient and reliable generation of global path plans are necessary for safe execution and deployment of autonomous systems. In order to generate planning graphs which adequately resolve the topology of a given environment, many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Alexander Lambert , Brian Hou , Rosario Scalise , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa , Byron Boots

Many exciting robotic applications require multiple robots with many degrees of freedom, such as manipulators, to coordinate their motion in a shared workspace. Discovering high-quality paths in such scenarios can be achieved, in principle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Rahul Shome , Kiril Solovey , Andrew Dobson , Dan Halperin , Kostas E. Bekris

Path planning is a crucial algorithmic approach for designing robot behaviors. Sampling-based approaches, like rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs) or probabilistic roadmaps, are prominent algorithmic solutions for path planning problems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-05 T. Dam , G. Chalvatzaki , J. Peters , J. Pajarinen

When planning motions in a configuration space that has underlying symmetries (e.g. when manipulating one or multiple symmetric objects), the ideal planning algorithm should take advantage of those symmetries to produce shorter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Thomas Cohn , Russ Tedrake

The ability to plan informative paths online is essential to robot autonomy. In particular, sampling-based approaches are often used as they are capable of using arbitrary information gain formulations. However, they are prone to local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Lukas Schmid , Michael Pantic , Raghav Khanna , Lionel Ott , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto

Motion planning under differential constraints, kinodynamic motion planning, is one of the canonical problems in robotics. Currently, state-of-the-art methods evolve around kinodynamic variants of popular sampling-based algorithms, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Oktay Arslan , Karl Berntorp , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Informative path planning is an important and challenging problem in robotics that remains to be solved in a manner that allows for wide-spread implementation and real-world practical adoption. Among various reasons for this, one is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Brady Moon , Satrajit Chatterjee , Sebastian Scherer

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

Path planning for 3D solid objects is a challenging problem, requiring a search in a six-dimensional configuration space, which is, nevertheless, essential in many robotic applications such as bin-picking and assembly. The commonly used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Michal Minařík , Vojtěch Vonásek , Robert Pěnička

During the last decade, incremental sampling-based motion planning algorithms, such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been shown to work well in practice and to possess theoretical guarantees such as probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-05-05 Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

In this paper we present a novel probabilistic sampling-based motion planning algorithm called the Fast Marching Tree algorithm (FMT*). The algorithm is specifically aimed at solving complex motion planning problems in high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Lucas Janson , Edward Schmerling , Ashley Clark , Marco Pavone

This paper proposes a sampling based planning algorithm to control autonomous vehicles. We propose an improved Rapidly-exploring Random Tree which includes the definition of K- nearest points and propose a two-stage sampling strategy to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Fatemeh Mohseni , Mahdi Morsali