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Letting robots emulate human behavior has always posed a challenge, particularly in scenarios involving multiple robots. In this paper, we presented a framework aimed at achieving multi-agent reinforcement learning for robot control in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Christine Wun Ki Suen , Zhengbo Zou

The optimal tracking problem is addressed in the robotics literature by using a variety of robust and adaptive control approaches. However, these schemes are associated with implementation limitations such as applicability in uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Mohammed Abouheaf , Wail Gueaieb , Davide Spinello

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

In this paper we present a method for automatically planning robust optimal paths for a group of robots that satisfy a common high level mission specification. Each robot's motion in the environment is modeled as a weighted transition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alphan Ulusoy , Stephen L. Smith , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta

This article addresses obstacle avoidance motion planning for autonomous vehicles, specifically focusing on highway overtaking maneuvers. The control design challenge is handled by considering a mathematical vehicle model that captures both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Gianni Cario , Valentino Carriuolo , Alessandro Casavola , Gianfranco Gagliardi , Marco Lupia , Franco Angelo Torchiaro

One of the pivotal challenges in a multi-robot system is how to give attention to accuracy and efficiency while ensuring safety. Prior arts cannot strictly guarantee collision-free for an arbitrarily large number of robots or the results…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhirui Sun , Mansha Zheng , Hongpeng Wang , Shuai Li , Jiankun Wang

We address the problem of optimizing the performance of a dynamic system while satisfying hard safety constraints at all times. Implementing an optimal control solution is limited by the computational cost required to derive it in real…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Wei Xiao , Christos G. Cassandras , Calin A. Belta

Athletic robots demand a whole-body actuation system design that utilizes motors up to the boundaries of their performance. However, creating such robots poses challenges of integrating design principles and reasoning of practical design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Youngwoo Sim , Guillermo Colin , Joao Ramos

For motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles to be proactive and safe, pedestrians' and other road users' motions must be considered. In this paper, we present a vehicle motion planning and control framework, based on Model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ivo Batkovic , Mario Zanon , Mohammad Ali , Paolo Falcone

Recently, the centroidal momentum dynamics has received substantial attention to plan dynamically consistent motions for robots with arms and legs in multi-contact scenarios. However, it is also non convex which renders any optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Brahayam Ponton , Alexander Herzog , Andrea Del Prete , Stefan Schaal , Ludovic Righetti

We present an approach for predictive braking of a four-wheeled vehicle on a nonplanar road. Our main contribution is a methodology to consider friction and road contact safety on general smooth road geometry. We use this to develop an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Thomas Fork , Francesco Camozzi , Xiao-Yu Fu , Francesco Borrelli

This paper describes and analyzes a reactive navigation framework for mobile robots in unknown environments. The approach does not rely on a global map and only considers the local occupancy in its robot-centered 3D grid structure. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Neşet Ünver Akmandor , Taşkın Padır

Transferring solutions found by trajectory optimization to robotic hardware remains a challenging task. When the optimization fully exploits the provided model to perform dynamic tasks, the presence of unmodeled dynamics renders the motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Ruben Grandia , Farbod Farshidian , Alexey Dosovitskiy , René Ranftl , Marco Hutter

Fast and precise motion control is important for industrial robots in manufacturing applications. However, some collaborative robots sacrifice precision for safety, particular for high motion speed. The performance degradation is caused by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Shuyang Chen , John T. Wen

Deterministic methods for motion planning guarantee safety amidst uncertainty in obstacle locations by trying to restrict the robot from operating in any possible location that an obstacle could be in. Unfortunately, this can result in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jinsun Liu , Challen Enninful Adu , Lucas Lymburner , Vishrut Kaushik , Lena Trang , Ram Vasudevan

In mobile robot shared control, effectively understanding human motion intention is critical for seamless human-robot collaboration. This paper presents a novel shared control framework featuring planning-level intention prediction. A path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jinyu Zhang , Lijun Han , Feng Jian , Lingxi Zhang , Hesheng Wang

We present an optimization-based method to plan the motion of an autonomous robot under the uncertainties associated with dynamic obstacles, such as humans. Our method bounds the marginal risk of collisions at each point in time by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 O. de Groot , B. Brito , L. Ferranti , D. Gavrila , J. Alonso-Mora

As humanoid robots enter real-world environments, ensuring robust locomotion across diverse environments is crucial. This paper presents a computationally efficient hierarchical control framework for humanoid robot locomotion based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Adrian B. Ghansah , Sergio A. Esteban , Aaron D. Ames

This paper presents a vision guidance and control method for autonomous robotic capture and stabilization of orbital objects in a time-critical manner. The method takes into account various operational and physical constraints, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Farhad Aghili

We present an approach to learn fast and dynamic robot motions without exceeding limits on the position $\theta$, velocity $\dot{\theta}$, acceleration $\ddot{\theta}$ and jerk $\dddot{\theta}$ of each robot joint. Movements are generated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jonas C. Kiemel , Torsten Kröger