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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into evolutionary frameworks has established a new paradigm for automated heuristic discovery. Despite their promise, these methods typically search in the discrete space of program syntax,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cheikh Ahmed , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Zirui Zhou

Carpooling has gained considerable importance in developed as well as in developing countries as an effective solution for controlling vehicular pollution, both sound and air. As carpooling decreases the number of vehicles used by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Romit S Beed , Sunita Sarkar , Arindam Roy , Suvranil D Biswas , Suhana Biswas

Enabling robots to efficiently search for and identify objects in complex, unstructured environments is critical for diverse applications ranging from household assistance to industrial automation. However, traditional scene representations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liding Zhang , Zeqi Li , Kuanqi Cai , Qian Huang , Zhenshan Bing , Alois Knoll

Search-based motion planning algorithms have been widely utilized for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, deploying these algorithms on real UAVs faces challenges due to limited onboard computational resources. The algorithms struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wentao Wang , Yi Shen , Kaiyang Chen , Kaifan Lu

Spatial puzzles composed of rigid objects, flexible strings and holes offer interesting domains for reasoning about spatial entities that are common in the human daily-life's activities. The goal of this work is to investigate the automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Thiago Freitas dos Santos , Paulo E. Santos , Leonardo A. Ferreira , Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi , Pedro Cabalar

Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) using Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved notable success in recent years. Despite the effectiveness of existing approaches, they only design a single heuristic to serve all problem instances, often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Fei Liu , Yilu Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise in Automated Heuristic Design (AHD), existing approaches typically formulate AHD around constructive priority rules or parameterized local search guidance, thereby restricting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Baoyun Zhao , He Wang , Liang Zeng

This paper presents the constrained Hybrid Metaheuristic (cHM) algorithm as a general framework for continuous optimisation. Unlike many existing metaheuristics that are tailored to specific function classes or problem domains, cHM is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Piotr A. Kowalski , Szymon Kucharczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star(RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacle's geometry in a given environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

Proper path planning is the first step of robust and efficient autonomous navigation for mobile robots. Meanwhile, it is still challenging for robots to work in a complex environment without complete prior information. This paper presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Wenjian Hao , Rongyao Wang , Alexander Krolicki , Yiqiang Han

Motion planning in uncertain environments like complex urban areas is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The aim of our research is to investigate how AVs can navigate crowded, unpredictable scenarios with multiple pedestrians…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Korbinian Moller , Truls Nyberg , Jana Tumova , Johannes Betz

This paper presents a generic technique for improving hybrid algorithms through the discovery of and tuning of meta-heuristics. The idea is to represent a family of push/pull heuristics that are based upon inserting and removing tasks in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yves Caseau , Glenn Silverstein , Francois Laburthe

In this work we tackle the path planning problem for a 21-dimensional snake robot-like manipulator, navigating a cluttered gas turbine for the purposes of inspection. Heuristic search based approaches are effective planning strategies for…

Heuristic search is a powerful approach for solving planning problems and numeric planning is no exception. In this paper, we boost the performance of heuristic search for numeric planning with various powerful techniques orthogonal to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dillon Z. Chen , Sylvie Thiébaux

The paper presents an experimental study of resilient path planning for con-tinuum robots taking into account the multi-objective optimisation problem. To do this, we used two well-known algorithms, namely Genetic algorithm and A*…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Oxana Shamilyan , Ievgen Kabin , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

Informed sampling-based planning algorithms exploit problem knowledge for better search performance. This knowledge is often expressed as heuristic estimates of solution cost and used to order the search. The practical improvement of this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

The development of driving functions for autonomous vehicles in urban environments is still a challenging task. In comparison with driving on motorways, a wide variety of moving road users, such as pedestrians or cyclists, but also the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Andreas Folkers , Matthias Rick , Christof Büskens

Multi-objective optimizations are frequently encountered in engineering practices. The solution techniques and parametric selections however are usually problem-specific. In this study we formulate a reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Pei Cao , Jiong Tang

Recent advancements in self-driving car technologies have enabled them to navigate autonomously through various environments. However, one of the critical challenges in autonomous vehicle operation is trajectory planning, especially in…

The hm admissible heuristics for (sequential and temporal) regression planning are defined by a parameterized relaxation of the optimal cost function in the regression search space, where the parameter m offers a trade-off between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. Haslum