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This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

Trajectory Planning is a crucial word in Modern & Advanced Robotics. It's a way of generating a smooth and feasible path for the robot to follow over time. The process primarily takes several factors to generate the path, such as velocity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Arunabh Bora

Randomized sampling based algorithms are widely used in robot motion planning due to the problem's intractability, and are experimentally effective on a wide range of problem instances. Most variants bias their sampling using various…

Sampling-based methods for motion planning, which capture the structure of the robot's free space via (typically random) sampling, have gained popularity due to their scalability, simplicity, and for offering global guarantees, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Itai Panasoff , Kiril Solovey

Self-driving vehicles are a maturing technology with the potential to reshape mobility by enhancing the safety, accessibility, efficiency, and convenience of automotive transportation. Safety-critical tasks that must be executed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Brian Paden , Michal Cap , Sze Zheng Yong , Dmitry Yershov , Emilio Frazzoli

Motion planning for urban environments with numerous moving agents can be viewed as a combinatorial problem. With passing an obstacle before, after, right or left, there are multiple options an autonomous vehicle could choose to execute.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Klemens Esterle , Patrick Hart , Julian Bernhard , Alois Knoll

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

Traversing environments with arbitrary obstacles poses significant challenges for bipedal robots. In some cases, whole body motions may be necessary to maneuver around an obstacle, but most existing footstep planners can only select from a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Michael X. Grey , Aaron D. Ames , C. Karen Liu

Consider a robot operating in an uncertain environment with stochastic, dynamic obstacles. Despite the clear benefits for trajectory optimization, it is often hard to keep track of each obstacle at every time step due to sensing and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Michael Hibbard , Abraham P. Vinod , Jesse Quattrociocchi , Ufuk Topcu

Continuum robots, characterized by their high flexibility and infinite degrees of freedom (DoFs), have gained prominence in applications such as minimally invasive surgery and hazardous environment exploration. However, the intrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Peiyu Luo , Shilong Yao , Yiyao Yue , Jiankun Wang , Hong Yan , Max Q. -H. Meng

The configuration of most robotic systems lies in continuous transformation groups. However, in mobile robot trajectory tracking, many recent works still naively utilize optimization methods for elements in vector space without considering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jiawei Tang , Shuang Wu , Bo Lan , Yahui Dong , Yuqiang Jin , Guangjian Tian , Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

The paper deals with motion planning for a spin-rolling sphere when the sphere follows a straight path on a plane. Since the motion of the sphere is constrained by the straight line, the control of the sphere's spin motion is essential to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Seyed Amir Tafrishi , Mikhail Svinin , Motoji Yamamoto , Yasuhisa Hirata

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

The paper surveys topological problems relevant to the motion planning problem of robotics and includes some new results and constructions. First we analyse the notion of topological complexity of configuration spaces which is responsible…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Michael Farber

Online trajectory planning enables robot manipulators to react quickly to changing environments or tasks. Many robot trajectory planners exist for known environments but are often too slow for online computations. Current methods in online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Thies Oelerich , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Florian Beck , Andreas Kugi

This letter presents a novel coarse-to-fine motion planning framework for robotic manipulation in cluttered, unmodeled environments. The system integrates a dual-camera perception setup with a B-spline-based model predictive control (MPC)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Chen Cai , Ernesto Dickel Saraiva , Ya-jun Pan , Steven Liu

Safe path and gait planning are essential for bipedal robots to navigate complex real-world environments. The prevailing approaches often plan the path and gait separately in a hierarchical fashion, potentially resulting in unsafe movements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Chengyang Peng , Victor Paredes , Ayonga Hereid

Numerical optimization has become a popular approach to plan smooth motion trajectories for robots. However, when sharing space with humans, balancing properly safety, comfort and efficiency still remains challenging. This is notably the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Philipp Kratzer , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

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

There are many challenges for robot navigation in densely populated dynamic environments. This paper presents a survey of the path planning methods for robot navigation in dense environments. Particularly, the path planning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Kuanqi Cai , Chaoqun Wang , Jiyu Cheng , Clarence W De Silva , Max Q. -H. Meng