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A path-planning algorithm for connected and non-connected automated road vehicles on multilane motorways is derived from the opportune formulation of an optimal control problem. In this framework, the objective function to be minimized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Panagiotis Typaldos , Markos Papageorgiou , Ioannis Papamichail

Collision-tolerant trajectory planning is the consideration that collisions, if they are planned appropriately, enable more effective path planning for robots capable of handling them. A mixed integer programming (MIP) optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Mark L. Mote , Juan-Pablo Afman , Eric Feron

We consider the problem of planning a collision-free path for a high-dimensional robot. Specifically, we suggest a planning framework where a motion-planning algorithm can obtain guidance from a user. In contrast to existing approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Fahad Islam , Oren Salzman , Maxim Likhachev

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

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

Collision-free mobile robot navigation is an important problem for many robotics applications, especially in cluttered environments. In such environments, obstacles can be static or dynamic. Dynamic obstacles can additionally be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

We study the iterative refinement of path planning for multiple robots, known as multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF). Given a graph, agents, their initial locations, and destinations, a solution of MAPF is a set of paths without collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Defago

We present a motion planning algorithm to compute collision-free and smooth trajectories for high-DOF robots interacting with humans in a shared workspace. Our approach uses offline learning of human actions along with temporal coherence to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jae Sung Park , Chonhyon Park , Dinesh Manocha

In this paper, we look into the minimum obstacle displacement (MOD) planning problem from a mobile robot motion planning perspective. This problem finds an optimal path to goal by displacing movable obstacles when no path exists due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Antony Thomas , Giulio Ferro , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Michela Robba

Box/cabinet scenarios with stacked objects pose significant challenges for robotic motion due to visual occlusions and constrained free space. Traditional collision-free trajectory planning methods often fail when no collision-free paths…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chengjin Wang , Zheng Yan , Yanmin Zhou , Runjie Shen , Zhipeng Wang , Bin Cheng , Bin He

Robots have been operating in dynamic environments and shared workspaces for decades. Most optimization based motion planning methods, however, do not consider the movement of other agents, e.g. humans or other robots, and therefore do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Tobias Schoels , Per Rutquist , Luigi Palmieri , Andrea Zanelli , Kai O. Arras , Moritz Diehl

Purpose of Review Planning collision-free paths for multiple robots is important for real-world multi-robot systems and has been studied as an optimization problem on graphs, called Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). This review surveys…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Hang Ma

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

Trajectory planning in robotics aims to generate collision-free pose sequences that can be reliably executed. Recently, vision-to-planning systems have gained increasing attention for their efficiency and ability to interpret and adapt to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qihang Li , Zhuoqun Chen , Haoze Zheng , Haonan He , Zitong Zhan , Shaoshu Su , Junyi Geng , Chen Wang

The problem of mixed static and dynamic obstacle avoidance is essential for path planning in highly dynamic environment. However, the paths formed by grid edges can be longer than the true shortest paths in the terrain since their headings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Junxiao Xue , Xiangyan Kong , Bowei Dong , Mingliang Xu

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

Efficient planning in dynamic and uncertain environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics. In the context of trajectory optimization, the feasibility of paths can change as the environment evolves. Therefore, it can be beneficial to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Keshav Kolur , Sahit Chintalapudi , Byron Boots , Mustafa Mukadam

Inspection planning, the task of planning motions that allow a robot to inspect a set of points of interest, has applications in domains such as industrial, field, and medical robotics. Inspection planning can be computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Mengyu Fu , Alan Kuntz , Oren Salzman , Ron Alterovitz

A topological theory initiated recently by the author uses methods of algebraic topology to estimate numerically the character of instabilities arising in motion planning algorithms. The present paper studies random motion planning…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber