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Sequential convex programming has been established as an effective framework for solving nonconvex trajectory planning problems. However, its performance is highly sensitive to problem parameters, including trajectory variables, algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ziqi Xu , Lin Cheng , Di Wu , Shengping Gong

This paper proposes a fast and accurate trajectory planning algorithm for autonomous parking. Nominally, an optimal control problem should be formulated to describe this scheme, but the dimensionality of the optimal control problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Bai Li , Tankut Acarman , Qi Kong , Youmin Zhang

For multi-vehicle complex traffic scenarios in shared spaces such as intelligent intersections, safe coordination and trajectory planning is challenging due to computational complexity. To meet this challenge, we introduce a computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Amirreza Akbari , Johan Thunberg

This article addresses the obstacle avoidance problem for setpoint stabilization and path-following tasks in complex dynamic 2D environments that go beyond conventional scenes with isolated convex obstacles. A combined motion planner and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Albin Dahlin , Yiannis Karayiannidis

We propose an approach to trajectory optimization for piecewise polynomial systems based on the recently proposed graphs of convex sets framework. We instantiate the framework with a convex relaxation of optimal control based on occupation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Etienne Buehrle , Ömer Şahin Taş , Christoph Stiller

Planning collision free trajectories in complex environments remains a core challenge in robotics. Existing corridor based planners which rely on decomposition of the free space into collision free subsets scale poorly with environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Akshay Jaitly , Jon Arrizabalaga , Guanrui Li

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles requires generating collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectories in complex environments under real-time constraints. While nonlinear optimal control formulations provide high-fidelity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matheus Wagner , Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

We present an optimization-based framework for multicopter trajectory planning subject to geometrical configuration constraints and user-defined dynamic constraints. The basis of the framework is a novel trajectory representation built upon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhepei Wang , Xin Zhou , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Safe UAV navigation is challenging due to the complex environment structures, dynamic obstacles, and uncertainties from measurement noises and unpredictable moving obstacle behaviors. Although plenty of recent works achieve safe navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhefan Xu , Di Deng , Yiping Dong , Kenji Shimada

In this paper, a novel closed-loop control framework for autonomous obstacle avoidance on a curve road is presented. The proposed framework provides two main functionalities; (i) collision free trajectory planning using MPC and (ii) a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Shayan Taherian , Shilp Dixit , Umberto Montanaro , Saber Fallah

We consider the problem of designing a smooth trajectory that traverses a sequence of convex sets in minimum time, while satisfying given velocity and acceleration constraints. This problem is naturally formulated as a nonconvex program. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Tobia Marcucci , Mathew Halm , Will Yang , Dongchan Lee , Andrew D. Marchese

This work presents a novel data-driven multi-layered planning and control framework for the safe navigation of a class of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in the presence of unknown stationary obstacles and additive modeling uncertainties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Skylar X. Wei , Lu Gan , Joel W. Burdick

In this work, we present a workspace-based planning framework, which though using redundant workspace key-points to represent robot states, can take advantage of the interpretable geometric information to derive good quality collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Weifu Wang , Ping Li

In this paper, we propose a trajectory optimization for computing smooth collision free trajectories for nonholonomic curvature bounded vehicles among static and dynamic obstacles. One of the key novelties of our formulation is a hierarchal…

A path-following collision-avoidance model predictive control (MPC) method is proposed which approximates obstacle shapes as convex polygons. Collision-avoidance is ensured by means of the signed distance function which is calculated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-26 Simon Helling , Christian Roduner , Thomas Meurer

This paper presents a method for local motion planning in unstructured environments with static and moving obstacles, such as humans. Given a reference path and speed, our optimization-based receding-horizon approach computes a local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Bruno Brito , Boaz Floor , Laura Ferranti , Javier Alonso-Mora

This work addresses the problem of coupling vision-based navigation systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with robust obstacle avoidance capabilities. The former problem is solved by maximizing the visibility of the points of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Ciro Potena , Daniele Nardi , Alberto Pretto

We present a continuous-time collision detection algorithm for quickly detecting whether certain polynomial trajectories in time intersect with convex obstacles. The algorithm is used in conjunction with an existing multicopter trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Nathan Bucki , Mark W. Mueller

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are essential in various industries for their efficiency and adaptability. However, planning trajectories for AGVs in obstacle-dense, unstructured environments presents significant challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shaoqiang Liang , Songyuan Fa , Yiqun Li

In many human-in-the-loop robotic applications such as robot-assisted surgery and remote teleoperation, predicting the intended motion of the human operator may be useful for successful implementation of shared control, guidance virtual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Arun Kumar Singh , Sigal Berman , Ilana Nisky