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The ability to achieve precise and smooth trajectory tracking is crucial for ensuring the successful execution of various tasks involving robotic manipulators. State-of-the-art techniques require accurate mathematical models of the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Mohamed Abdelwahab , Giulio Giacomuzzo , Alberto Dalla Libera , Ruggero Carli

We present a method for learning to satisfy uncertain constraints from demonstrations. Our method uses robust optimization to obtain a belief over the potentially infinite set of possible constraints consistent with the demonstrations, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Glen Chou , Necmiye Ozay , Dmitry Berenson

It is a challenging task for ground robots to autonomously navigate in harsh environments due to the presence of non-trivial obstacles and uneven terrain. This requires trajectory planning that balances safety and efficiency. The primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Zhang , Yinchuan Wang , Wangtao Lu , Pengyu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yue Wang , Chaoqun Wang

We study the problem of bipedal robot navigation in complex environments with uncertain and rough terrain. In particular, we consider a scenario in which the robot is expected to reach a desired goal location by traversing an environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kasidit Muenprasitivej , Jesse Jiang , Abdulaziz Shamsah , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

For tasks conducted in unknown environments with efficiency requirements, real-time navigation of multi-robot systems remains challenging due to unfamiliarity with surroundings.In this paper, we propose a novel multi-robot collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Qingquan Lin , Weining Lu , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang

Despite extensive developments in motion planning of autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs), existing frameworks faces the challenges of local minima and deadlock in complex dynamic environments, leading to increased collision risks. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junzhi Li , Teng Long , Jingliang Sun , Jianxin Zhong

In order for an autonomous robot to efficiently explore an unknown environment, it must account for uncertainty in sensor measurements, hazard assessment, localization, and motion execution. Making decisions for maximal reward in a…

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing collision-free, dynamically feasible, and socially-aware trajectories for robots operating in environments populated by humans. We define trajectories to be social-aware if they do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Xusheng Luo , Yan Zhang , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper presents aUToPath, a unified online framework for global path-planning and control to address the challenge of autonomous navigation in cluttered urban environments. A key component of our framework is a novel hybrid planner that…

In automated driving, predicting and accommodating the uncertain future motion of other traffic participants is challenging, especially in unstructured environments in which the high-level intention of traffic participants is difficult to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Tommaso Benciolini , Yuntian Yan , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

The problem of path planning in unknown environments remains a challenging problem - as the environment is gradually observed during the navigation, the underlying planner has to update the environment representation and replan, promptly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Fan Yang , Chao Cao , Hongbiao Zhu , Jean Oh , Ji Zhang

For high level path planning, environments are usually modeled as distance graphs, and path planning problems are reduced to computing the shortest path in distance graphs. One major drawback of this modeling is the inability to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Runping Qi , David L. Poole

In this paper, we consider a robot navigation problem in environments populated by humans. The goal is to determine collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectories that also maximize human satisfaction. This is because they may drive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yijie Zhou , Yan Zhang , Xusheng Luo , Michael M. Zavlanos

Path planning for autonomous vehicles in arbitrary environments requires a guarantee of safety, but this can be impractical to ensure in real-time when the vehicle is described with a high-fidelity model. To address this problem, this paper…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Shreyas Kousik , Sean Vaskov , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ramanarayan Vasudevan

We investigate the autonomous navigation of a mobile robot in the presence of other moving vehicles under time-varying uncertain environmental disturbances. We first predict the future state distributions of other vehicles to account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Junhong Xu , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

As robots are being increasingly used in close proximity to humans and objects, it is imperative that robots operate safely and efficiently under real-world conditions. Yet, the environment is seldom known perfectly. Noisy sensors and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

Robots navigating complex environments must manage uncertainty from sensor noise, environmental changes, and incomplete information, with different tasks requiring varying levels of precision in different areas. For example, precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Gokul Puthumanaillam , Paulo Padrao , Jose Fuentes , Leonardo Bobadilla , Melkior Ornik

A new framework is developed for control of constrained nonlinear systems with structured parametric uncertainties. Forward invariance of a safe set is achieved through online parameter adaptation and data-driven model estimation. The new…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Brett T. Lopez , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Jonathan P. How

Safe autonomous navigation in a priori unknown environments is an essential skill for mobile robots to reliably and adaptively perform diverse tasks (e.g., delivery, inspection, and interaction) in unstructured cluttered environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Dharshan Bashkaran Latha , Ömür Arslan