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One of the fundamental limiting factors in planetary exploration is the autonomous capabilities of planetary exploration rovers. This study proposes a novel methodology for trustworthy autonomous multi-robot teams which incorporates data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sarah Swinton , Jan-Hendrik Ewers , Euan McGookin , David Anderson , Douglas Thomson

We consider an autonomous exploration problem in which a range-sensing mobile robot is tasked with accurately mapping the landmarks in an a priori unknown environment efficiently in real-time; it must choose sensing actions that both curb…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Fanfei Chen , John D. Martin , Yewei Huang , Jinkun Wang , Brendan Englot

Multi-robot path planning is a computational process involving finding paths for each robot from its start to the goal while ensuring collision-free operation. It is widely used in robots and autonomous driving. However, the computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Biru Zhang , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

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…

Exploration and collision-free navigation through an unknown environment is a fundamental task for autonomous robots. In this paper, a novel exploration strategy for Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is presented. The goal of the exploration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Anna Dai , Sotiris Papatheodorou , Nils Funk , Dimos Tzoumanikas , Stefan Leutenegger

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

Autonomous exploration is an essential capability for mobile robots, as the majority of their applications require the ability to efficiently collect information about their surroundings. In the literature, there are several approaches,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Lorenzo Gentilini , Dario Mengoli , Lorenzo Marconi

Safe autonomous exploration of unknown environments is an essential skill for mobile robots to effectively and adaptively perform environmental mapping for diverse critical tasks. Due to its simplicity, most existing exploration methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Aykut İşleyen , René van de Molengraft , Ömür Arslan

RRT* is an efficient sampling-based motion planning algorithm. However, without taking advantages of accessible environment information, sampling-based algorithms usually result in sampling failures, generate useless nodes, and/or fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenxi Feng , Haochen Wu

Efficient navigation through uneven terrain remains a challenging endeavor for autonomous robots. We propose a new geometric-based uneven terrain mapless navigation framework combining a Sparse Gaussian Process (SGP) local map with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Abe Leininger , Mahmoud Ali , Hassan Jardali , Lantao Liu

Wheeled robot navigation has been widely used in urban environments, but little research has been conducted on its navigation in wild vegetation. External sensors (LiDAR, camera etc.) are often used to construct point cloud map of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zhuozhu Jian , Zejia Liu , Haoyu Shao , Xueqian Wang , Xinlei Chen , Bin Liang

To operate with limited sensor horizons in unpredictable environments, autonomous robots use a receding-horizon strategy to plan trajectories, wherein they execute a short plan while creating the next plan. However, creating safe,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Shreyas Kousik , Sean Vaskov , Fan Bu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan

In this article, we introduce a novel strategy for robotic exploration in unknown environments using a semantic topometric map. As it will be presented, the semantic topometric map is generated by segmenting the grid map of the currently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Scott Fredriksson , Akshit Saradagi , George Nikolakopoulos

Hierarchical multi-robot exploration commonly decouples frontier allocation from local navigation, which can make the system brittle in dense and dynamic environments. Because the allocator lacks direct awareness of execution difficulty,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ning Liu , Sen Shen , Zheng Li , Sheng Liu , Dongkun Han , Shangke Lyu , Thomas Braunl

We present a sampling-based framework for multi-robot motion planning which combines an implicit representation of a roadmap with a novel approach for pathfinding in geometrically embedded graphs tailored for our setting. Our pathfinding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Trajectory planning is challenging for autonomous cars since they operate in unpredictable environments with limited sensor horizons. To incorporate new information as it is sensed, planning is done in a loop, with the next plan being…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Sean Vaskov , Utkarsh Sharma , Shreyas Kousik , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ramanarayan Vasudevan

This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Autonomous explorative robots frequently encounter scenarios where multiple future trajectories can be pursued. Often these are cases with multiple paths around an obstacle or trajectory options towards various frontiers. Humans in such…

Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) is one of the most widely used algorithms for motion planning in the field of robotics. To reduce the exploration time, RRT-Connect was introduced where two trees are simultaneously formed and eventually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Darshit Patel , Azim Eskandarian

Global redundancy resolution (GRR) roadmaps is a novel concept in robotics that facilitates the mapping from task space paths to configuration space paths in a legible, predictable, and repeatable way. Such roadmaps could find widespread…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhuoyun Zhong , Zhi Li , Constantinos Chamzas