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Lattice-based motion planning is a hybrid planning method where a plan made up of discrete actions simultaneously is a physically feasible trajectory. The planning takes both discrete and continuous aspects into account, for example action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mattias Tiger , David Bergström , Andreas Norrstig , Fredrik Heintz

Traffic simulation, complementing real-world data with a long-tail distribution, allows for effective evaluation and enhancement of the ability of autonomous vehicles to handle accident-prone scenarios. Simulating such safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zherui Huang , Xing Gao , Guanjie Zheng , Licheng Wen , Xuemeng Yang , Xiao Sun

Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for future autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches fix the number of driving intentions by considering only a specific scenario.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

This work addresses human intention identification during physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI) tasks to include this information in an assistive controller. To this purpose, human intention is defined as the desired trajectory that the…

As drone technology advances, using unmanned aerial vehicles for aerial surveys has become the dominant trend in modern low-altitude remote sensing. The surge in aerial video data necessitates accurate prediction for future scenarios and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Liangyu Xu , Wanxuan Lu , Hongfeng Yu , Yongqiang Mao , Hanbo Bi , Chenglong Liu , Xian Sun , Kun Fu

This paper presents an aggressiveness-aware control framework for quadrotor UAVs that integrates learning-based oracles to mitigate the effects of unknown disturbances. Starting from a nominal tracking controller on $\mathrm{SE}(3)$,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Leonardo Colombo , Thomas Beckers , Juan Giribet

To plan safe trajectories in urban environments, autonomous vehicles must be able to quickly assess the future intentions of dynamic agents. Pedestrians are particularly challenging to model, as their motion patterns are often uncertain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sarah Ferguson , Brandon Luders , Robert C. Grande , Jonathan P. How

Recent quadrotors have transcended conventional designs, emphasizing more on foldable and reconfigurable bodies. The state of the art still focuses on the mechanical feasibility of such designs with limited discussions on the tracking…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Karishma Patnaik , Wenlong Zhang

Aerial robots can enhance their safe and agile navigation in complex and cluttered environments by efficiently exploiting the information collected during a given task. In this paper, we address the learning model predictive control problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Guanrui Li , Alex Tunchez , Giuseppe Loianno

Expressive motion planning for Aerial Manipulators (AMs) is essential for tackling complex manipulation tasks, yet achieving coupled trajectory planning adaptive to various tasks remains challenging, especially for those requiring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Weiliang Deng , Hongming Chen , Biyu Ye , Haoran Chen , Ziliang Li , Ximin Lyu

Trajectory and intention prediction of traffic participants is an important task in automated driving and crucial for safe interaction with the environment. In this paper, we present a new approach to vehicle trajectory prediction based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Jannik Quehl , Haohao Hu , Sascha Wirges , Martin Lauer

A perception-aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) strategy aimed at performing vision-based target tracking and collision avoidance with a multi-rotor aerial vehicle is presented in this paper. The proposed control strategy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Andriy Dmytruk , Giuseppe Silano , Davide Bicego , Daniel Bonilla Licea , Martin Saska

This paper presents a novel trajectory planning method for aerial perching. Compared with the existing work, the terminal states and the trajectory durations can be adjusted adaptively, instead of being determined in advance. Furthermore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Jialin Ji , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Planning high-speed trajectories for UAVs in unknown environments requires algorithmic techniques that enable fast reaction times to guarantee safety as more information about the environment becomes available. The standard approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jesus Tordesillas , Brett T. Lopez , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

This paper presents a novel framework to accelerate route prediction in Drone-as-a-Service operations through weather-aware deep learning models. While classical path-planning algorithms, such as A* and Dijkstra, provide optimal solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Kamal Mohamed , Lillian Wassim , Ali Hamdi , Khaled Shaban

In this paper, we present an online planning-scheduling approach for battery-powered autonomous aerial robots. The approach consists of simultaneously planning a coverage path and scheduling onboard computational tasks. We further derive a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Adam Seewald , Héctor García de Marina , Henrik Skov Midtiby , Ulrik Pagh Schultz

This paper presents PANTHER, a real-time perception-aware (PA) trajectory planner for multirotor-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in dynamic environments. PANTHER plans trajectories that avoid dynamic obstacles while also keeping them in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

This work aims to tackle the intent recognition problem in Human-Robot Collaborative assembly scenarios. Precisely, we consider an interactive assembly of a wooden stool where the robot fetches the pieces in the correct order and the human…

Algorithms for motion planning in unknown environments are generally limited in their ability to reason about the structure of the unobserved environment. As such, current methods generally navigate unknown environments by relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Amine Elhafsi , Boris Ivanovic , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

Recent research on automotive driving developed an efficient end-to-end learning mode that directly maps visual input to control commands. However, it models distinct driving variations in a single network, which increases learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Huifang Ma , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Sarath Kodagoda , Li Tang