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Visual navigation by mobile robots is classically tackled through SLAM plus optimal planning, and more recently through end-to-end training of policies implemented as deep networks. While the former are often limited to waypoint planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Assem Sadek , Guillaume Bono , Boris Chidlovskii , Christian Wolf

We present RiEMann, an end-to-end near Real-time SE(3)-Equivariant Robot Manipulation imitation learning framework from scene point cloud input. Compared to previous methods that rely on descriptor field matching, RiEMann directly predicts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Chongkai Gao , Zhengrong Xue , Shuying Deng , Tianhai Liang , Siqi Yang , Lin Shao , Huazhe Xu

Mobile robots often rely on pre-existing maps for effective path planning and navigation. However, when these maps are unavailable, particularly in unfamiliar environments, a different approach become essential. This paper introduces…

Obstacle avoidance and path planning are essential for guiding unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) through environments that are densely populated with dynamic obstacles. This paper develops a novel approach that combines tangentbased path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Okan Arif Guvenkaya , Selim Ahmet Iz , Mustafa Unel

Path planning of Robot is one of the challenging fields in the area of Robotics research. In this paper, we proposed a novel algorithm to find path between starting and ending position for an intelligent system. An intelligent system is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-21 Tirtharaj Dash , Goutam Mishra , Tanistha Nayak

This paper introduces a neural Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework for mapless, collision-free navigation in unknown environments with Aerial Robots, using onboard range sensing. We leverage deep neural networks to encode a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Martin Jacquet , Marvin Harms , Kostas Alexis

In ground-view object change detection, the recently emerging mapless navigation has great potential to navigate a robot to objects distantly detected (e.g., books, cups, clothes) and acquire high-resolution object images, to identify their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Kouki Terashima , Kanji Tanaka , Ryogo Yamamoto , Jonathan Tay Yu Liang

This review article is an attempt to survey all recent AI based techniques used to deal with major functions in This review paper presents a comprehensive overview of end-to-end deep learning frameworks used in the context of autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Arman Asgharpoor Golroudbari , Mohammad Hossein Sabour

The ability to autonomously navigate in unknown environments is important for mobile robots. The map is the core component to achieve this. Most map representations rely on drift-free state estimation and provide a global metric map to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xuecheng Xu , Cheng Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

A key challenge in complex visuomotor control is learning abstract representations that are effective for specifying goals, planning, and generalization. To this end, we introduce universal planning networks (UPN). UPNs embed differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Aravind Srinivas , Allan Jabri , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Active sensing and planning in unknown, cluttered environments is an open challenge for robots intending to provide home service, search and rescue, narrow-passage inspection, and medical assistance. Although many active sensing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Hanwen Ren , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Recently, a number of learning-based models have been proposed for multi-robot navigation. However, these models lack memory and only rely on the current observations of the robot to plan their actions. They are unable to leverage past…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Md Ishat-E-Rabban , Pratap Tokekar

We investigate how a neural network can learn perception actions loops for navigation in unknown environments. Specifically, we consider how to learn to navigate in environments populated with cul-de-sacs that represent convex local minima…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Arbaaz Khan , Clark Zhang , Nikolay Atanasov , Konstantinos Karydis , Daniel D. Lee , Vijay Kumar

In recent times, an increasing number of researchers have been devoted to utilizing deep neural networks for end-to-end flight navigation. This approach has gained traction due to its ability to bridge the gap between perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zhichao Han , Long Xu , Liuao Pei , Fei Gao

Navigating robots safely and efficiently in crowded and complex environments remains a significant challenge. However, due to the dynamic and intricate nature of these settings, planning efficient and collision-free paths for robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhuanglei Wen , Mingze Dong , Xiai Chen

Real-time and collision-free motion planning remains challenging for robotic manipulation in unknown environments due to continuous perception updates and the need for frequent online replanning. To address these challenges, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xuewei Zhang , Bailing Tian , Kai Zheng , Yulin Hui , Junjie Lu , Zhiyu Li

Humans can routinely follow a trajectory defined by a list of images/landmarks. However, traditional robot navigation methods require accurate mapping of the environment, localization, and planning. Moreover, these methods are sensitive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Noriaki Hirose , Fei Xia , Roberto Martin-Martin , Amir Sadeghian , Silvio Savarese

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

Traditional path-planning techniques treat humans as obstacles. This has changed since robots started to enter human environments. On modern robots, social navigation has become an important aspect of navigation systems. To use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yigit Yildirim , Emre Ugur

For safe navigation in dynamic uncertain environments, robotic systems rely on the perception and prediction of other agents. Particularly, in occluded areas where cameras and LiDAR give no data, the robot must be able to reason about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Roya Firoozi , Alexandre Mir , Gadi Sznaier Camps , Mac Schwager