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Multi-objective or multi-destination path planning is crucial for mobile robotics applications such as mobility as a service, robotics inspection, and electric vehicle charging for long trips. This work proposes an anytime iterative system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Yingwen Tan , Dongmyeong Lee , Vishnu R. Desaraju , Jessy W. Grizzle

As the demands of autonomous mobile robots are increasing in recent years, the requirement of the path planning/navigation algorithm should not be content with the ability to reach the target without any collisions, but also should try to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jian Zhang

The autonomous exploration of environments by multi-robot systems is a critical task with broad applications in rescue missions, exploration endeavors, and beyond. Current approaches often rely on either greedy frontier selection or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gengyuan Cai , Luosong Guo , Xiangmao Chang

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

Autonomous exploration in unknown environments remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, particularly for applications such as search and rescue, industrial inspection, and planetary exploration. Multi-robot active SLAM presents a…

In this work, we present an approach to planning for humanoid mobility. Humanoid mobility is a challenging problem, as the configuration space for a humanoid robot is intractably large, especially if the robot is capable of performing many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Andrew Dornbush , Karthik Vijayakumar , Sameer Bardapurkar , Fahad Islam , Maxim Likhachev

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

Exploration of unknown environments is a fundamental problem in robotics and an essential component in numerous applications of autonomous systems. A major challenge in exploring unknown environments is that the robot has to plan with the…

We introduce the problem of Dynamic Real-time Multimodal Routing (DREAMR), which requires planning and executing routes under uncertainty for an autonomous agent. The agent has access to a time-varying transit vehicle network in which it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Shushman Choudhury , Jacob P. Knickerbocker , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Consider a robot operating in an uncertain environment with stochastic, dynamic obstacles. Despite the clear benefits for trajectory optimization, it is often hard to keep track of each obstacle at every time step due to sensing and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Michael Hibbard , Abraham P. Vinod , Jesse Quattrociocchi , Ufuk Topcu

This paper addresses the problem of planning a safe (i.e., collision-free) trajectory from an initial state to a goal region when the obstacle space is a-priori unknown and is incrementally revealed online, e.g., through line-of-sight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Lucas Janson , Tommy Hu , Marco Pavone

Generating safe motion plans in real-time is necessary for the wide-scale deployment of robots in unstructured and human-centric environments. These motion plans must be safe to ensure humans are not harmed and nearby objects are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jonathan Michaux , Adam Li , Qingyi Chen , Che Chen , Bohao Zhang , Ram Vasudevan

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

In this paper, we present a learning approach to goal assignment and trajectory planning for unlabeled robots operating in 2D, obstacle-filled workspaces. More specifically, we tackle the unlabeled multi-robot motion planning problem with…

Methods for centralized planning of the collision-free trajectories for a fleet of mobile robots typically solve the discretized version of the problem and rely on numerous simplifying assumptions, e.g. moves of uniform duration, cardinal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Vitaly Vorobyev

In this paper, we investigate the problem of planning an optimal infinite path for a single robot to achieve a linear temporal logic (LTL) task with security guarantee. We assume that the external behavior of the robot, specified by an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Shuo Yang , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li , Majid Zamani

Planning collision-free paths for multi-robot systems (MRS) is a challenging problem because of the safety and efficiency constraints required for real-world solutions. Even though coupled path planning approaches provide optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Aditya Rathi , Rohith G , Madhu Vadali

An innovative sort of mobility platform that can both drive and fly is the air-ground robot. The need for an agile flight cannot be satisfied by traditional path planning techniques for air-ground robots. Prior studies had mostly focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xiaoyu Wang , Kangyao Huang , Xinyu Zhang , Honglin Sun , Wenzhuo Liu , Huaping Liu , Jun Li , Pingping Lu

If we give a robot the task of moving an object from its current position to another location in an unknown environment, the robot must explore the map, identify all types of obstacles, and then determine the best route to complete the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

We deal with the problem of planning collision-free trajectories for robots operating in a shared space. Given the start and destination position for each of the robots, the task is to find trajectories for all robots that reach their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Alexander Kleiner