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The primary goal of motion planning is to generate safe and efficient trajectories for vehicles. Traditionally, motion planning models are trained using imitation learning to mimic the behavior of human experts. However, these models often…

Recent work has demonstrated real-time mapping and reconstruction from dense perception, while motion planning based on distance fields has been shown to achieve fast, collision-free motion synthesis with good convergence properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mark Nicholas Finean , Wolfgang Merkt , Ioannis Havoutis

With the release of open source datasets such as nuPlan and Argoverse, the research around learning-based planners has spread a lot in the last years. Existing systems have shown excellent capabilities in imitating the human driver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Cristian Gariboldi , Matteo Corno , Beng Jin

Robotic trajectory planning in dynamic and cluttered environments remains a critical challenge, particularly when striving for both time efficiency and motion smoothness under actuation constraints. Traditional path planner, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adeetya Uppal , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

Manipulation in clutter requires solving complex sequential decision making problems in an environment rich with physical interactions. The transfer of motion planning solutions from simulation to the real world, in open-loop, suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Wissam Bejjani , Rafael Papallas , Matteo Leonetti , Mehmet R. Dogar

Current motion planning approaches for autonomous mobile robots often assume that the low level controller of the system is able to track the planned motion with very high accuracy. In practice, however, tracking error can be affected by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jacob Higgins , Nicholas Mohammad , Nicola Bezzo

This paper presents a new method for learning dissipative Hamiltonian dynamics from a limited and noisy dataset. The method uses the Helmholtz decomposition to learn a vector field as the sum of a symplectic and a dissipative vector field.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Torbjørn Smith , Olav Egeland

We describe a novel approach for computing collision-free \emph{global} trajectories for $p$ agents with specified initial and final configurations, based on an improved version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jose Bento , Nate Derbinsky , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jonathan Yedidia

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

Hyperparameter selection is critical for stable and efficient convergence of heterogeneous federated learning, where clients differ in computational capabilities, and data distributions are non-IID. Tuning hyperparameters is a manual and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi , Gauri Joshi

Autonomous motion planning is critical for efficient and safe underwater manipulation in dynamic marine environments. Current motion planning methods often fail to effectively utilize prior motion experiences and adapt to real-time…

This paper presents an optimal motion planning framework to generate versatile energy-optimal quadrupedal jumping motions automatically (e.g., flips, spin). The jumping motions via the centroidal dynamics are formulated as a 12-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhitao Song , Linzhu Yue , Guangli Sun , Yihu Ling , Hongshuo Wei , Linhai Gui , Yun-Hui Liu

Over the years, the separate fields of motion planning, mapping, and human trajectory prediction have advanced considerably. However, the literature is still sparse in providing practical frameworks that enable mobile manipulators to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Mark Nicholas Finean , Luka Petrović , Wolfgang Merkt , Ivan Marković , Ioannis Havoutis

An algorithm is developed to optimize vehicle speed trajectory over multiple signalized intersections with known traffic signal information to minimize fuel consumption and travel time, and to meet ride comfort requirements using sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Xianan Huang , Huei Peng

We develop a computational method to learn a molecular Hamiltonian matrix from matrix-valued time series of the electron density. As we demonstrate for three small molecules, the resulting Hamiltonians can be used for electron density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Harish S. Bhat , Karnamohit Ranka , Christine M. Isborn

Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robotic manipulators. These methods enable planning directly from sensor observations without relying on a privileged collision checker…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Davood Soleymanzadeh , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

In this paper, a kinematic motion planning algorithm for cooperative spatial payload manipulation is presented. A hierarchical approach is introduced to compute real-time collision-free motion plans for a formation of mobile manipulator…

We present a novel approach for motion planning in mobile robotics under sensing and motion uncertainty based on state lattices with graduated fidelity. The probability of collision is reliably estimated considering the robot shape, and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Adrián González-Sieira , Manuel Mucientes , Alberto Bugarín

Traditional motion planning approaches for multi-legged locomotion divide the problem into several stages, such as contact search and trajectory generation. However, reasoning about contacts and motions simultaneously is crucial for the…

Increase in the number of space exploration missions has led to the accumulation of space debris, posing risk of collision with the operational satellites. Addressing this challenge is crucial for the sustainability of space operations. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Paridhi Choudhary , Manoranjan Sinha