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There are many industrial, commercial and social applications for multi-agent planning for multirotors such as autonomous agriculture, infrastructure inspection and search and rescue. Thus, improving on the state-of-the-art of multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Charbel Toumieh

The aim of this work is to define a planner that enables robust legged locomotion for complex multi-agent systems consisting of several holonomically constrained quadrupeds. To this end, we employ a methodology based on behavioral systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Randall T Fawcett , Leila Amanzadeh , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D Ames , Kaveh Akbari Hamed

Recent work on visual world models shows significant promise in latent state dynamics obtained from pre-trained image backbones. However, most of the current approaches are sensitive to training quality, requiring near-complete coverage of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Eric Jing , Abdeslam Boularias

Safe autonomous exploration of unknown environments is an essential skill for mobile robots to effectively and adaptively perform environmental mapping for diverse critical tasks. Due to its simplicity, most existing exploration methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Aykut İşleyen , René van de Molengraft , Ömür Arslan

Path planning in dynamic environments is a fundamental challenge in intelligent transportation and robotics, where obstacles and conditions change over time, introducing uncertainty and requiring continuous adaptation. While existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jonas De Maeyer , Hossein Yarahmadi , Moharram Challenger

Efficiently solving path planning problems for a large number of robots is critical to the successful operation of modern warehouses. The existing approaches adopt classical shortest path algorithms to plan in environments whose cells are…

Motion generation in cluttered, dense, and dynamic environments is a central topic in robotics, rendered as a multi-objective decision-making problem. Current approaches trade-off between safety and performance. On the one hand, reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kay Hansel , Julen Urain , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Communication delays can be catastrophic for multiagent systems. However, most existing state-of-the-art multiagent trajectory planners assume perfect communication and therefore lack a strategy to rectify this issue in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kota Kondo , Reinaldo Figueroa , Juan Rached , Jesus Tordesillas , Parker C. Lusk , Jonathan P. How

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

In this paper, we address the problem of real-time motion planning for multiple robotic manipulators that operate in close proximity. We build upon the concept of dynamic fabrics and extend them to multi-robot systems, referred to as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Saray Bakker , Luzia Knoedler , Max Spahn , Wendelin Böhmer , Javier Alonso-Mora

This paper presents a reactive controller for planar manipulation tasks that leverages machine learning to achieve real-time performance. The approach is based on a Model Predictive Control (MPC) formulation, where the goal is to find an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Francois Robert Hogan , Eudald Romo Grau , Alberto Rodriguez

We introduce a real-time, constrained, nonlinear Model Predictive Control for the motion planning of legged robots. The proposed approach uses a constrained optimal control algorithm known as SLQ. We improve the efficiency of this algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Farbod Farshidian , Edo Jelavić , Asutosh Satapathy , Markus Giftthaler , Jonas Buchli

Decentralized planning for multi-agent systems, such as fleets of robots in a search-and-rescue operation, is often constrained by limitations on how agents can communicate with each other. One such limitation is the case when agents can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Victoria Tuck , Yash Vardhan Pant , Sanjit A. Seshia , S. Shankar Sastry

For motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles to be proactive and safe, pedestrians' and other road users' motions must be considered. In this paper, we present a vehicle motion planning and control framework, based on Model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ivo Batkovic , Mario Zanon , Mohammad Ali , Paolo Falcone

In this paper, a novel hybrid multi-robot motion planner that can be applied under non-communication and local observable conditions is presented. The planner is model-free and can realize the end-to-end mapping of multi-robot state and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zichen He , Lu Dong , Chunwei Song , Changyin Sun

In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning algorithm which is based on model predictive control (MPC). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Rahul Tallamraju , Sujit Rajappa , Michael Black , Kamalakar Karlapalem , Aamir Ahmad

We study the iterative refinement of path planning for multiple robots, known as multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF). Given a graph, agents, their initial locations, and destinations, a solution of MAPF is a set of paths without collisions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Defago

Models used in modern planning problems to simulate outcomes of real world action executions are becoming increasingly complex, ranging from simulators that do physics-based reasoning to precomputed analytical motion primitives. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Anirudh Vemula , Yash Oza , J. Andrew Bagnell , Maxim Likhachev

Quadruped robots have received increasing attention for the past few years. However, existing works primarily focus on static environments or assume the robot has full observations of the environment. This limits their practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tangyu Qian , Zhangli Zhou , Shaocheng Wang , Zhijun Li , Chun-Yi Su , Zhen Kan

Path planning for robotic coverage is the task of determining a collision-free robot trajectory that observes all points of interest in an environment. Robots employed for such tasks are often capable of exercising active control over…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Tushar Kusnur , Dhruv Mauria Saxena , Maxim Likhachev