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With the development of science and technology, mobile robots are playing a significant important role in the new round of world revolution. Further, mobile robots might assist or replace human beings in a great number of areas. To increase…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jiawei Meng , Danail Stoyanov

We present an approach for safe motion planning under robot state and environment (obstacle and landmark location) uncertainties. To this end, we first develop an approach that accounts for the landmark uncertainties during robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

The objective of this work is to augment the basic abilities of a robot by learning to use sensorimotor primitives to solve complex long-horizon manipulation problems. This requires flexible generative planning that can combine primitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Zi Wang , Caelan Reed Garrett , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Despite recent progress improving the efficiency and quality of motion planning, planning collision-free and dynamically-feasible trajectories in partially-mapped environments remains challenging, since constantly replanning as unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Abhish Khanal , Hoang-Dung Bui , Gregory J. Stein , Erion Plaku

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

We study a generalized motion planning problem involving multiple autonomous robots navigating in a $d$-dimensional Euclidean space in the presence of a set of obstacles whose positions are unknown a priori. Each robot is required to visit…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gopal Chandra Dutta , Amit Kumar Paul , Subhankar Sau

Robot motion planning involves computing a sequence of valid robot configurations that take the robot from its initial state to a goal state. Solving a motion planning problem optimally using analytical methods is proven to be PSPACE-Hard.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Naman Shah , Abhyudaya Srinet , Siddharth Srivastava

We consider a chance-constrained multi-robot motion planning problem in the presence of Gaussian motion and sensor noise. Our proposed algorithm, CC-K-CBS, leverages the scalability of kinodynamic conflict-based search (K-CBS) in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anne Theurkauf , Justin Kottinger , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper we study paramertized motion planning algorithms which provide universal and flexible solutions to diverse motion planning problems. Such algorithms are intended to function under a variety of external conditions which are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

In this paper, we extend a famous motion planning approach GPMP2 to multi-robot cases, yielding a novel centralized trajectory generation method for the multi-robot formation. A sparse Gaussian Process model is employed to represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shuang Guo , Bo Liu , Shen Zhang , Jifeng Guo , Changhong Wang

During recent years, unmanned surface vehicles are extensively utilised in a variety of maritime applications such as the exploration of unknown areas, autonomous transportation, offshore patrol and others. In such maritime applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiawei Meng , Yuanchang Liu , Danail Stoyanov

We address the risk bounded trajectory optimization problem of stochastic nonlinear robotic systems. More precisely, we consider the motion planning problem in which the robot has stochastic nonlinear dynamics and uncertain initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Weiqiao Han , Ashkan Jasour , Brian Williams

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

Planning robust robot manipulation requires good forward models that enable robust plans to be found. This work shows how to achieve this using a forward model learned from robot data to plan push manipulations. We explore learning methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Ermano Arruda , Michael J Mathew , Marek Kopicki , Michael Mistry , Morteza Azad , Jeremy L Wyatt

Motion simulation, prediction and planning are foundational tasks in autonomous driving, each essential for modeling and reasoning about dynamic traffic scenarios. While often addressed in isolation due to their differing objectives, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nan Song , Junzhe Jiang , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

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

Balancing safety and efficiency when planning in crowded scenarios with uncertain dynamics is challenging where it is imperative to accomplish the robot's mission without incurring any safety violations. Typically, chance constraints are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Khaled A. Mustafa , Oscar de Groot , Xinwei Wang , Jens Kober , Javier Alonso-Mora

Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jingchuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jing Li , Xiguang Wei , Wenzhe Tan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hongbo Li

This paper considers the problem of online multi-robot motion planning with general nonlinear dynamics subject to unknown external disturbances. We propose dSLAP, a distributed safe learning and planning framework that allows the robots to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhenyuan Yuan , Minghui Zhu

We present a general and modular algorithmic framework for path planning of robots. Our framework combines geometric methods for exact and complete analysis of low-dimensional configuration spaces, together with practical, considerably…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Oren Salzman , Michael Hemmer , Barak Raveh , Dan Halperin