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The problem of maneuvering a vehicle through a race course in minimum time requires computation of both longitudinal (brake and throttle) and lateral (steering wheel) control inputs. Unfortunately, solving the resulting nonlinear optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Nitin R. Kapania , John Subosits , J Christian Gerdes

We develop a hierarchical controller for head-to-head autonomous racing. We first introduce a formulation of a racing game with realistic safety and fairness rules. A high-level planner approximates the original formulation as a discrete…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Rishabh Saumil Thakkar , Aryaman Singh Samyal , David Fridovich-Keil , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Planning for multi-robot teams in complex environments is a challenging problem, especially when these teams must coordinate to accomplish a common objective. In general, optimal solutions to these planning problems are computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cora A. Dimmig , Kevin C. Wolfe , Joseph Moore

Trajectory planning at high velocities and at the handling limits is a challenging task. In order to cope with the requirements of a race scenario, we propose a far-sighted two step, multi-layered graph-based trajectory planner, capable to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tim Stahl , Alexander Wischnewski , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

In order to minimize the impact of lane change (LC) maneuver on surrounding traffic environment, a hierarchical automatic LC algorithm that could realize local optimum has been proposed. This algorithm consists of a tactical layer planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Yang Li , Linbo Li , Daiheng Ni , Wenxuang Wang

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…

Task and motion planning (TAMP) for multi-robot systems, which integrates discrete task planning with continuous motion planning, remains a challenging problem in robotics. Existing TAMP approaches often struggle to scale effectively for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhongqi Wei , Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Hierarchical decision-making is a natural paradigm for coordinating multi-agent systems in complex environments such as air traffic management. In this paper, we present a bilevel framework for game-theoretic hierarchical routing, where a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Dong Ho Lee , Kaitlyn Donnel , Max Z. Li , David Fridovich-Keil

This paper develops a game-theoretic decision-making framework for autonomous driving in multi-agent scenarios. A novel hierarchical game-based decision framework is developed for the ego vehicle. This framework features an interaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Mushuang Liu , Yan Wan , Frank Lewis , Subramanya Nageshrao , H. Eric Tseng , Dimitar Filev

Motion generation in cluttered, dense, and dynamic environments is a central topic in robotics, rendered as a multi-objective decision-making problem. Current approaches trade-off between safety and performance. On the one hand, reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kay Hansel , Julen Urain , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

We present a homotopic approach to solving challenging, optimization-based motion planning problems. The approach uses Homotopy Optimization, which, unlike standard continuation methods for solving homotopy problems, solves a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shayan Pardis , Matthew Chignoli , Sangbae Kim

Trajectory planning in urban automated driving is challenging because of the high uncertainty resulting from the unknown future motion of other traffic participants. Robust approaches guarantee safety, but tend to result in overly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Tommaso Benciolini , Tim Brüdigam , Marion Leibold

Multi-UAV air combat is a complex task involving multiple autonomous UAVs, an evolving field in both aerospace and artificial intelligence. This paper aims to enhance adversarial performance through collaborative strategies. Previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jinhui Pang , Jinglin He , Noureldin Mohamed Abdelaal Ahmed Mohamed , Changqing Lin , Zhihui Zhang , Xiaoshuai Hao

Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular method to compute a trajectory in real-time. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu M. Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora

In this paper, we present a novel approach to efficiently generate collision-free optimal trajectories for multiple non-holonomic mobile robots in obstacle-rich environments. Our approach first employs a graph-based multi-agent path planner…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Juncheng Li , Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

Multi-robot path finding in dynamic environments is a highly challenging classic problem. In the movement process, robots need to avoid collisions with other moving robots while minimizing their travel distance. Previous methods for this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shaoming Peng

Coordinating the motion of multiple robots in cluttered environments remains a computationally challenging task. We study the problem of minimizing the execution time of a set of geometric paths by a team of robots with state-dependent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Katherine Mao , Igor Spasojevic , Malakhi Hopkins , M. Ani Hsieh , Vijay Kumar

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu