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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

Understanding the geometry of collision-free configuration space (C-free) in the presence of task-space obstacles is an essential ingredient for collision-free motion planning. While it is possible to check for collisions at a point using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hongkai Dai , Alexandre Amice , Peter Werner , Annan Zhang , Russ Tedrake

This paper presents a method to compute differentiable collision-free parametric corridors. In contrast to existing solutions that decompose the obstacle-free space into multiple convex sets, the continuous corridors computed by our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jon Arrizabalaga , Zachary Manchester , Markus Ryll

Motion planning in dynamic environments, such as robotic warehouses, requires fast adaptation to frequent changes in obstacle poses. Traditional roadmap-based methods struggle in such settings, relying on inefficient reconstruction of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yulie Arad , Stav Ashur , Marta Markowicz , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Recent progress in contact-rich robotic manipulation has been striking, yet most deployed systems remain confined to simple, scripted routines. One of the key barriers is the lack of motion planning algorithms that can provide verifiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Nayesha Gandotra , Itamar Mishani , Maxim Likhachev

We present an approach that generates kinodynamically feasible paths for robots using Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT). We leverage motion primitives as a way to capture the dynamics of the robot and use these motion primitives to build…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Abhishek Paudel

The paper presents a novel learning-based sampling strategy that guarantees rejection-free sampling of the free space under both biased and approximately uniform conditions, leveraging multivariate kernel densities. Historical data from a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas T. Enevoldsen , Roberto Galeazzi

In automated manufacturing, robots must reliably assemble parts of various geometries and low tolerances. Ideally, they plan the required motions autonomously. This poses a substantial challenge due to high-dimensional state spaces and…

This paper focuses on spatial time-optimal motion planning, a generalization of the exact time-optimal path following problem that allows the system to plan within a predefined space. In contrast to state-of-the-art methods, we drop the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jon Arrizabalaga , Markus Ryll

Current motion planning approaches rely on binary collision checking to evaluate the validity of a state and thereby dictate where the robot is allowed to move. This approach leaves little room for robots to engage in contact with an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Nataliya Nechyporenko , Caleb Escobedo , Shreyas Kadekodi , Alessandro Roncone

This work establishes a solution to the problem of assessing the capacity of multi-object assemblies to withstand external forces without becoming unstable. Our physically-grounded approach handles arbitrary structures made from rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Philippe Nadeau , Jonathan Kelly

This paper presents a novel feedback method on the motion planning for unicycle robots in environments with static obstacles, along with an extension to the distributed planning and coordination in multi-robot systems. The method employs a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Dimitra Panagou

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

A new closed-form solver is proposed minimizing the algebraic error optimally, in the least-squares sense, to estimate the relative planar motion of two calibrated cameras. The main objective is to solve the over-determined case, i.e., when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Levente Hajder , Daniel Barath

Safety is a critical concern for the success of urban air mobility, especially in dynamic and uncertain environments. This paper proposes a path planning algorithm based on RRT in conjunction with chance constraints in the presence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Pengcheng Wu , Lin Li , Junfei Xie , Jun Chen

The path planning problems arising in manipulation planning and in task and motion planning settings are typically repetitive: the same manipulator moves in a space that only changes slightly. Despite this potential for reuse of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Valentin N. Hartmann , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint

Planning trajectories for nonholonomic systems is difficult and computationally expensive. When facing unexpected events, it may therefore be preferable to deform in some way the initially planned trajectory rather than to re-plan entirely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Quang-Cuong Pham

This paper presents a search-based partial motion planner to generate dynamically feasible trajectories for car-like robots in highly dynamic environments. The planner searches for smooth, safe, and near-time-optimal trajectories by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Jiahui Lin , Tong Zhou , Delong Zhu , Jianbang Liu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories for autonomous mobile robots involves a fundamental trade-off between guaranteeing safety and managing computational complexity. State-of-the-art approaches formulate spline-based motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dries Dirckx , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

We present a fully distributed collision avoidance algorithm based on convex optimization for a team of mobile robots. This method addresses the practical case in which agents sense each other via measurements from noisy on-board sensors…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Guillermo Angeris , Kunal Shah , Mac Schwager