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Trajectory replanning is a critical problem for multi-robot teams navigating dynamic environments. We present RLSS (Replanning using Linear Spatial Separations): a real-time trajectory replanning algorithm for cooperative multi-robot teams…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Wolfgang Hönig , Nora Ayanian

Precise motion control of underactuated surface vessels is a crucial task in various maritime applications. In this work, we develop a nonlinear motion control strategy for surface vessels inspired by the pursuit guidance philosophy. Any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ram Milan Kumar Verma , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Hemendra Arya

As drones and autonomous cars become more widespread it is becoming increasingly important that robots can operate safely under realistic conditions. The noisy information fed into real systems means that robots must use estimates of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Brian Axelrod , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Path Planning and target searching in a three-dimensional environment is a challenging task in the field of robotics. It is an optimization problem as the path from source to destination has to be optimal. This paper aims to generate a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Devansh Verma , Priyansh Saxena , Ritu Tiwari

Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular method to compute a trajectory in real-time. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu M. Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora

Path planners based on basic rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs) are quick and efficient, and thus favourable for real-time robot path planning, but are almost-surely suboptimal. In contrast, the optimal RRT (RRT*) converges to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Bongani B. Maseko , Corné E. van Daalen , Johann Treurnicht

This work presents proximally optimal predictive control algorithm, which is essentially a model-based lateral controller for steered autonomous vehicles that selects an optimal steering command within the neighborhood of previous steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chinmay Vilas Samak , Tanmay Vilas Samak , Sivanathan Kandhasamy

The problem of pursuing a moving target is always one of the main topics in navigation. In the literatures, there are two well-known algorithms called Pure Pursuit and Pure Rendezvous navigation in the 3-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^3$. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Hassan Attarchi , Behroz Bidabad , Morteza MirMohammad Rezaii

Pure Pursuit (PP) is a widely used path-tracking algorithm in autonomous vehicles due to its simplicity and real-time performance. However, its effectiveness is sensitive to the choice of lookahead distance: shorter values improve cornering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mohamed Elgouhary , Amr S. El-Wakeel

Pure Pursuit (PP) is widely used in autonomous racing for real-time path tracking due to its efficiency and geometric clarity, yet performance is highly sensitive to how key parameters-lookahead distance and steering gain-are chosen.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mohamed Elgouhary , Amr S. El-Wakeel

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

Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing environments due to their efficiency in doing repetitive tasks such as assembly or welding. A common problem for these applications is to reach a destination without colliding with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Teham Bhuiyan , Linh Kästner , Yifan Hu , Benno Kutschank , Jens Lambrecht

This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be very efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-03 Nicolas A. Barriga , Mauricio Araya-López , Mauricio Solar

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

Industrial robotic applications such as spraying, welding, and additive manufacturing frequently require fast, accurate, and uniform motion along a 3D spatial curve. To increase process throughput, some manufacturers propose a dual-robot…

This paper proposes a solution to the problem of smooth path planning for mobile robots in dynamic and unknown environments. A novel concept of Time-Warped Grid is introduced to predict the pose of obstacles in the environment and avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Siavash Farzan , Guilherme N. DeSouza

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

In recent years, advancements have been made towards the goal of using chaotic coverage path planners for autonomous search and traversal of spaces with limited environmental cues. However, the state of this field is still in its infancy as…

Navigating mobile robots through environments shared with humans is challenging. From the perspective of the robot, humans are dynamic obstacles that must be avoided. These obstacles make the collision-free space nonconvex, which leads to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 O. de Groot , L. Ferranti , D. Gavrila , J. Alonso-Mora