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Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) is the problem of planning collision-free trajectories from start to goal locations for a team of agents. This work explores a relatively unexplored setting of MAPP where streams of agents have to go through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura

Multi-arm motion planning is fundamental for enabling arms to complete complex long-horizon tasks in shared spaces efficiently but current methods struggle with scalability due to exponential state-space growth and reliance on large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Viraj Parimi , Brian C. Williams

Embodied agents have achieved prominent performance in following human instructions to complete tasks. However, the potential of providing instructions informed by texts and images to assist humans in completing tasks remains underexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yujie Lu , Pan Lu , Zhiyu Chen , Wanrong Zhu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

As robots play an increasingly important role in the industrial, the expectations about their applications for everyday living tasks are getting higher. Robots need to perform long-horizon tasks that consist of several sub-tasks that need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Lei Xu , Tianyu Ren , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Jan Peters

Multi-robot motion planning for high degree-of-freedom manipulators in shared, constrained, and narrow spaces is a complex problem and essential for many scenarios such as construction, surgery, and more. Traditional coupled methods plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Weihang Guo , Zachary Kingston , Kaiyu Hang , Lydia E. Kavraki

Current end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically learn only from expert planning data collected from a single ego vehicle, severely limiting the diversity of learnable driving policies and scenarios. However, a critical yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Bencheng Liao , Wenchao Sun , Yongchang Zhang , Lei Yang , Yandan Luo

Plant factory cultivation is widely recognized for its ability to optimize resource use and boost crop yields. To further increase the efficiency in these environments, we propose a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuankai Zhu , Wenwu Lu , Guoqiang Ren , Yibin Ying , Stavros Vougioukas , Chen Peng

A significant challenge in manipulation motion planning is to ensure agility in the face of unpredictable changes during task execution. This requires the identification and possible modification of suitable joint-space trajectories, since…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Filip Marić , Oliver Limoyo , Luka Petrović , Trevor Ablett , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Real-time planning for a combined problem of target assignment and path planning for multiple agents, also known as the unlabeled version of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), is crucial for high-level coordination in multi-agent systems,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Keisuke Okumura , Xavier Défago

This paper presents an automatic merging algorithm for autonomous driving vehicles, which decouples the specific motion planning problem into a Dual-Layer Automatic Merge Planning (DL_AMP) and a Descent-Based Trajectory Optimization (DBTO).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yuncheng Jiang , Qi Lin , Jiwei Zhang , Jun Wang , Danjian Qian , Yuxi Cai

In this paper, we propose using deep neural architectures (i.e., vision transformers and ResNet) as heuristics for sequential decision-making in robotic manipulation problems. This formulation enables predicting the subset of objects that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Hongyou Zhou , Ingmar Schubert , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

We introduce a novel method for controlling a motion sequence using an arbitrary temporal control sequence using temporal alignment. Temporal alignment of motion has gained significant attention owing to its applications in motion control…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Naoki Agata , Takeo Igarashi

The past few years have seen immense progress on two fronts that are critical to safe, widespread mobile robot deployment: predicting uncertain motion of multiple agents, and planning robot motion under uncertainty. However, the numerical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Luca Paparusso , Shreyas Kousik , Edward Schmerling , Francesco Braghin , Marco Pavone

This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme targeted at motion planning for mechatronic motion systems, such as drones and mobile platforms. NMPC-based motion planning typically requires low computation times to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dries Dirckx , Mathias Bos , Bastiaan Vandewal , Lander Vanroye , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

In this paper, we solve the arms exponential exploding issue in multivariate Multi-Armed Bandit (Multivariate-MAB) problem when the arm dimension hierarchy is considered. We propose a framework called path planning (TS-PP) which utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Keyu Nie , Zezhong Zhang , Ted Tao Yuan , Rong Song , Pauline Berry Burke

Neural-network-based dynamics models learned from observational data have shown strong predictive capabilities for scene dynamics in robotic manipulation tasks. However, their inherent non-linearity presents significant challenges for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Keyi Shen , Jiangwei Yu , Jose Barreiros , Huan Zhang , Yunzhu Li

Industrial manipulators have extensively collaborated with human operators to execute tasks, e.g., disassembly of end-of-use products, in intelligent remanufacturing. A safety task execution requires real-time path planning for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Wansong Liu , Chang Liu , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Manipulating deformable linear objects (DLOs) to achieve desired shapes in constrained environments with obstacles is a meaningful but challenging task. Global planning is necessary for such a highly-constrained task; however, accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Mingrui Yu , Kangchen Lv , Changhao Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Xiang Li

The strong dynamic coupling between the manipulator and the base poses a significant challenge to maintaining spacecraft attitude stability, potentially compromising mission safety. In this paper, we propose a Dual-Agent Coordinated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuhui Hu , Dong Zhou , Kaihong Ouyang , Zhongliang Yu , Jianfeng Lv , Xiangyu Shao

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato