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Parametrized motion planning algorithms have high degrees of universality and flexibility, as they are designed to work under a variety of external conditions, which are viewed as parameters and form part of the input of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Daniel C. Cohen , Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

Motion planning is a key tool that allows robots to navigate through an environment without collisions. The problem of robot motion planning has been studied in great detail over the last several decades, with researchers initially focusing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Luka Petrović

Sampling-based Motion Planners (SMPs) have become increasingly popular as they provide collision-free path solutions regardless of obstacle geometry in a given environment. However, their computational complexity increases significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

We consider the problem of finding collision-free paths for curvature-constrained systems in the presence of obstacles while minimizing execution time. Specifically, we focus on the setting where a planar system can travel at some range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Doron Pinsky , Petr Váňa , Jan Faigl , Oren Salzman

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms have been continuously developed for more than two decades. Apart from mobile robots, they are also widely used in manipulator motion planning. Hence, these methods play a key role in collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Carl Gaebert , Sascha Kaden , Benjamin Fischer , Ulrike Thomas

The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a collision-free path. However, these methods can be slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 J. Carvalho , A. Le , P. Kicki , D. Koert , J. Peters

Reconfigurable multi-robot cells offer a promising approach to meet fluctuating assembly demands. However, the recurrent planning of their configurations introduces new challenges, particularly in generating optimized, coordinated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Loris Schneider , Marc Ungen , Elias Huber , Jan-Felix Klein

Algorithms based on Monte-Carlo sampling have been widely adapted in robotics and other areas of engineering due to their performance robustness. However, these sampling-based approaches have high computational requirements, making them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yanqi Liu , Giuseppe Calderoni , R. Iris Bahar

In many robotics applications, multiple robots are working in a shared workspace to complete a set of tasks as fast as possible. Such settings can be treated as multi-modal multi-robot multi-goal path planning problems, where each robot has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Valentin N. Hartmann , Tirza Heinle , Yijiang Huang , Stelian Coros

Planning smooth and energy-efficient motions for wheeled mobile robots is a central task for applications ranging from autonomous driving to service and intralogistic robotics. Over the past decades, a wide variety of motion planners, steer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Eric Heiden , Luigi Palmieri , Kai O. Arras , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Sven Koenig

Motion planning under differential constraints is a classic problem in robotics. To date, the state of the art is represented by sampling-based techniques, with the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree algorithm as a leading example. Yet, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Edward Schmerling , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

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

Sampling-based planners are effective in many real-world applications such as robotics manipulation, navigation, and even protein modeling. However, it is often challenging to generate a collision-free path in environments where key areas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Constantinos Chamzas , Anshumali Shrivastava , Lydia E. Kavraki

Sampling-based planning is the predominant paradigm for motion planning in robotics. Most sampling-based planners use a global random sampling scheme to guarantee probabilistic completeness. However, most schemes are often inefficient as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tin Lai , Philippe Morere , Fabio Ramos , Gilad Francis

Traditional multi-robot motion planning (MMP) focuses on computing trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, such that the robots do not collide when the trajectories are taken simultaneously. In safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Justin Kottinger , Shaull Almagor , Morteza Lahijanian

Fast and efficient motion planning algorithms are crucial for many state-of-the-art robotics applications such as self-driving cars. Existing motion planning methods become ineffective as their computational complexity increases…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Anthony Simeonov , Mayur J. Bency , Michael C. Yip

Search-based planning with motion primitives is a powerful motion planning technique that can provide dynamic feasibility, optimality, and real-time computation times on size, weight, and power-constrained platforms in unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , James Paulos , Raymond Bjorkman , Vijay Kumar

We study the problem of planning collision-free paths for a group of homogeneous robots. We propose a novel approach for turning the paths that were planned egocentrically by the robots, e.g. without taking other robots' moves into account,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Anton Andreychuk , Konstantin Yakovlev

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

We address the problem of planning robot motions in constrained configuration spaces where the constraints change throughout the motion. The problem is formulated as a fixed sequence of intersecting manifolds, which the robot needs to…