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Sampling-based motion planning algorithms are widely used in robotics because they are very effective in high-dimensional spaces. However, the success rate and quality of the solutions are determined by an adequate selection of their…
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…
This paper proposes the Real-Time Fast Marching Tree (RT-FMT), a real-time planning algorithm that features local and global path generation, multiple-query planning, and dynamic obstacle avoidance. During the search, RT-FMT quickly looks…
This paper presents a motion planner for systems subject to kinematic and dynamic constraints. The former appear when kinematic loops are present in the system, such as in parallel manipulators, in robots that cooperate to achieve a given…
This work presents an optimal sampling-based method to solve the real-time motion planning problem in static and dynamic environments, exploiting the Rapid-exploring Random Trees (RRT) algorithm and the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI)…
Planning long duration robotic manipulation sequences is challenging because of the complexity of exploring feasible trajectories through nonlinear contact dynamics and many contact modes. Moreover, this complexity grows with the problem's…
Trajectory planning for quadrotors in cluttered environments has been challenging in recent years. While many trajectory planning frameworks have been successful, there still exists potential for improvements, particularly in enhancing the…
Probabilistic sampling-based algorithms, such as the probabilistic roadmap (PRM) and the rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) algorithms, represent one of the most successful approaches to robotic motion planning, due to their strong…
Informed sampling techniques accelerate the convergence of sampling-based motion planners by biasing sampling toward regions of the state space that are most likely to yield better solutions. However, when the current solution path contains…
Computing kinodynamically feasible motion plans and repairing them on-the-fly as the environment changes is a challenging, yet relevant problem in robot-navigation. We propose a novel online single-query sampling-based motion re-planning…
During the last decade, sampling-based path planning algorithms, such as Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRM) and Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT), have been shown to work well in practice and possess theoretical guarantees such as…
Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the fundamental problem of finding non-colliding trajectories for multiple robots acting in an environment, under kinodynamic constraints. Due to its complexity, existing algorithms either utilize…
This study aims to address the key challenge of obtaining a high-quality solution path within a short calculation time by generalizing a limited dataset. In the informed experience-driven random trees connect star (IERTC*) process, the…
Sampling-based motion planning has emerged as a powerful approach for robotics, enabling exploration of complex, high-dimensional configuration spaces. When combined with Signal Temporal Logic (STL), a temporal logic widely used for…
This paper introduces Bidirectional Guidance Informed Trees (BIGIT*),~a new asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning algorithm. Capitalizing on the strengths of \emph{meet-in-the-middle} property in bidirectional heuristic…
To move through the world, mobile robots typically use a receding-horizon strategy, wherein they execute an old plan while computing a new plan to incorporate new sensor information. A plan should be dynamically feasible, meaning it obeys…
In this paper, we present a novel RRT*-based strategy for generating kinodynamically feasible paths that satisfy temporal logic specifications. Our approach integrates a robustness metric for Linear Temporal Logics (LTL) with the system's…
Applying intelligent robot arms in dynamic uncertain environments (i.e., flexible production lines) remains challenging, which requires efficient algorithms for real time trajectory generation. The motion planning problem for robot…
Sampling-based methods such as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) have been widely used for generating motion paths for autonomous mobile systems. In this work, we extend time-based RRTs with Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) to generate,…
Path planning is an active area of research essential for many applications in robotics. Popular techniques include graph-based searches and sampling-based planners. These approaches are powerful but have limitations. This paper continues…