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To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

Sampling-based algorithms are widely used for motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces. However, due to low sampling efficiency, their performance often diminishes in complex configuration spaces with narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lu Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

We study the navigation problem for a robot moving amidst static and dynamic obstacles and rely on a hierarchical approach to solve it. First, the reference trajectory is planned by the safe interval path planning algorithm that is capable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Juliya Belinskaya , Dmitry Makarov

We present a general and modular algorithmic framework for path planning of robots. Our framework combines geometric methods for exact and complete analysis of low-dimensional configuration spaces, together with practical, considerably…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Oren Salzman , Michael Hemmer , Barak Raveh , Dan Halperin

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used to compute dynamically feasible robot paths. However, their reliance on uniform sampling often leads to poor efficiency and slow planning in complex environments. We introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shubham Natraj , Bruno Sinopoli , Yiannis Kantaros

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos

Sampling techniques are used in many fields, including design of experiments, image processing, and graphics. The techniques in each field are designed to meet the constraints specific to that field such as uniform coverage of the range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chandrika Kamath

This paper presents a framework for fast and robust motion planning designed to facilitate automated driving. The framework allows for real-time computation even for horizons of several hundred meters and thus enabling automated driving in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Barys Shyrokau , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

We present a framework for learning to guide geometric task and motion planning (GTAMP). GTAMP is a subclass of task and motion planning in which the goal is to move multiple objects to target regions among movable obstacles. A standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Beomjoon Kim , Luke Shimanuki , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Learning-based path planning is becoming a promising robot navigation methodology due to its adaptability to various environments. However, the expensive computing and storage associated with networks impose significant challenges for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jinsong Li , Shaochen Wang , Ziyang Chen , Zhen Kan , Jun Yu

Algorithms for motion planning in unknown environments are generally limited in their ability to reason about the structure of the unobserved environment. As such, current methods generally navigate unknown environments by relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Amine Elhafsi , Boris Ivanovic , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

Sampling-based motion planning is a well-established approach in autonomous driving, valued for its modularity and analytical tractability. In complex urban scenarios, however, uniform or heuristic sampling often produces many infeasible or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Korbinian Moller , Roland Stroop , Mattia Piccinini , Alexander Langmann , Johannes Betz

Sampling-based methods for motion planning, which capture the structure of the robot's free space via (typically random) sampling, have gained popularity due to their scalability, simplicity, and for offering global guarantees, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Itai Panasoff , Kiril Solovey

Repeated Sampling (RS) is a simple inference-time algorithm that has been shown to improve model performance on complex tasks. Although it is an effective way of scaling inference time, it often struggles to generate diverse solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Divij Handa , Mihir Parmar , Aswin RRV , Md Nayem Uddin , Hamid Palangi , Chitta Baral

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

Driving on the limits of vehicle dynamics requires predictive planning of future vehicle states. In this work, a search-based motion planning is used to generate suitable reference trajectories of dynamic vehicle states with the goal to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Zlatan Ajanovic , Enrico Regolin , Georg Stettinger , Martin Horn , Antonella Ferrara

This paper presents a new multi-layered algorithm for motion planning under motion and sensing uncertainties for Linear Temporal Logic specifications. We propose a technique to guide a sampling-based search tree in the combined task and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qi Heng Ho , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

In this article, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm equipped with an information-theoretic convergence criterion for incremental informative motion planning. The proposed approach allows dense map representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Jaime Valls Miro , Gamini Dissanayake

Motion planning under differential constraints is a classic problem in robotics. To date, the state of the art is represented by sampling-based techniques, with the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree algorithm as a leading example. Yet, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Edward Schmerling , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone