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This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

This paper focuses on automatic guided vehicle (AGV) trajectory planning in the presence of moving obstacles with known but complicated trajectories. In order to achieve good solution precision, optimality and unification, the concerned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bai Li , Youmin Zhang , Yakun Ouyang , Yi Liu , Xiang Zhong , Hangjie Cen , Qi Kong

This paper presents a hybrid robot motion planner that generates long-horizon motion plans for robot navigation in environments with obstacles. We propose a hybrid planner, RRT* with segmented trajectory optimization (RRT*-sOpt), which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jessica Leu , Michael Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

The problem of planning for a robot that operates in environments containing a large number of objects, taking actions to move itself through the world as well as to change the state of the objects, is known as task and motion planning…

Humanoid robots exhibit significant potential in executing diverse human-level skills. However, current research predominantly relies on data-driven approaches that necessitate extensive training datasets to achieve robust multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xuetao Li , Wenke Huang , Nengyuan Pan , Kaiyan Zhao , Songhua Yang , Yiming Wang , Mengde Li , Mang Ye , Jifeng Xuan , Miao Li

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

We consider the problem of optimal path planning on a manifold which is the image of a smooth function. Optimal path-planning is of crucial importance for motion planning, image processing, and statistical data analysis. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Edward Huynh , Christian Parkinson

We propose DeepExplorer, a simple and lightweight metric-free exploration method for topological mapping of unknown environments. It performs task and motion planning (TAMP) entirely in image feature space. The task planner is a recurrent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yuhang He , Irving Fang , Yiming Li , Rushi Bhavesh Shah , Chen Feng

Locomotion for legged robots poses considerable challenges when confronted by obstacles and adverse environments. Footstep planners are typically only designed for one mode of locomotion, but traversing unfavorable environments may require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Michael X. Grey , Aaron D. Ames , C. Karen Liu

In this paper, we present an optimization based method for path planning of a mobile robot subject to time bounded temporal constraints, in a dynamic environment. Temporal logic (TL) can address very complex task specification such as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

Heterogeneous multi-robot systems are increasingly used in long-horizon missions requiring coordinated planning across diverse capabilities. However, existing planning approaches struggle to construct accurate symbolic representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chak Lam Shek , Faizan M. Tariq , Sangjae Bae , David Isele , Piyush Gupta

In robotic task planning, symbolic planners using rule-based representations like PDDL are effective but struggle with long-sequential tasks in complicated environments due to exponentially increasing search space. Meanwhile, LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minseo Kwon , Yaesol Kim , Young J. Kim

Many path-finding algorithms on graphs such as A* are sped up by using a heuristic function that gives lower bounds on the cost to reach the goal. Aiming to apply similar techniques to speed up sampling-based motion-planning algorithms, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Path planning for a robot is one of the major problems in the area of robotics. When a robot is given a task in the form of a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification such that the task needs to be carried out repetitively, we want the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priya Purohit , Indranil Saha

Autonomous robots operating in dynamic environments must balance global path optimality with real-time responsiveness to disturbances. This requires addressing a fundamental trade-off between computationally expensive global planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shreyas Raorane , Kabir Ram Puri , Anh-Quan Pham

High-level autonomy requires discrete and continuous reasoning to decide both what actions to take and how to execute them. Integrated Task and Motion Planning (TMP) algorithms solve these hybrid problems jointly to consider constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Wil Thomason , Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

In the real-time decision-making and local planning process of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments, the autonomous driving system may fail to find a reasonable policy or even gets trapped in some situation due to the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lilin Qian , Xin Xu , Yujun Zeng , Xiaohui Li , Zhenping Sun , Hang Song

In this paper we address the optimal planning of autonomous teams for general purpose tasks including a wide spectrum of situations: from project management of human teams to the coordination of an automated assembly lines, focusing in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Antonio Sojo , Iván Maza , Aníbal Ollero

In this paper, we present a task space-based local motion planner that incorporates collision avoidance and constraints on end-effector motion during the execution of a task. Our key technical contribution is the development of a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Anirban Sinha , Anik Sarker , Nilanjan Chakraborty