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Surveillance and exploration of large environments is a tedious task. In spaces with limited environmental cues, random-like search is an effective approach as it allows the robot to perform online coverage of environments using simple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Karan Sridharan , Patrick McNamee , Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi , Jeffrey Hudack

Autonomous mobile robots operating in remote, unstructured environments must adapt to new, unpredictable terrains that can change rapidly during operation. In such scenarios, a critical challenge becomes estimating the robot's dynamics on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 William Ward , Sarah Etter , Tyler Ingebrand , Christian Ellis , Adam J. Thorpe , Ufuk Topcu

We address the problem of reactive motion planning for quadrotors operating in unknown environments with dynamic obstacles. Our approach leverages a 4-dimensional spatio-temporal planner, integrated with vision-based Safe Flight Corridor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Astik Srivastava , Thomas J Chackenkulam , Bitla Bhanu Teja , Antony Thomas , Madhava Krishna

We investigated different dense multirotor UAV traffic simulation scenarios in open 2D and 3D space, under realistic environments with the presence of sensor noise, communication delay, limited communication range, limited sensor update…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-28 Csaba Virágh , Máté Nagy , Carlos Gershenson , Gábor Vásárhelyi

Avoiding obstacles in the perceived world has been the classical approach to autonomous mobile robot navigation. However, this usually leads to unnatural and inefficient motions that significantly differ from the way humans move in tight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Maozhen Wang , Rui Luo , Aykut Ozgun Onol , Taskin Padir

Robotic navigation in complex environments remains a critical research challenge. Traditional navigation methods focus on optimal trajectory generation within fixed free workspace, therefore struggling in environments lacking viable paths…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kangjie Zhou , Yao Mu , Haoyang Song , Yi Zeng , Pengying Wu , Han Gao , Chang Liu

In many applications, including logistics and manufacturing, robot manipulators operate in semi-structured environments alongside humans or other robots. These environments are largely static, but they may contain some movable obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Fahad Islam , Chris Paxton , Clemens Eppner , Bryan Peele , Maxim Likhachev , Dieter Fox

This paper presents a novel approach to multi-robot collision avoidance that integrates global path planning with local navigation strategies, utilizing attentive graph neural networks to manage dynamic interactions among agents. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jonas le Fevre Sejersen , Toyotaro Suzumura , Erdal Kayacan

In this paper, we present a novel path planning algorithm to achieve fast path planning in complex environments. Most existing path planning algorithms are difficult to quickly find a feasible path in complex environments or even fail.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jianbang Liu , Baopu Li , Tingguang Li , Wenzheng Chi , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

We present DeepNav, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based algorithm for navigating large cities using locally visible street-view images. The DeepNav agent learns to reach its destination quickly by making the correct navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Samarth Brahmbhatt , James Hays

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

An algorithm based on Artificial Neural Networks is proposed in this paper to improve the accuracy of Inertial Navigation System (INS)/ Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrated navigation during the absence of GNSS signals. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Uche Onyekpe , Vasile Palade , Stratis Kanarachos

The hierarchy of global and local planners is one of the most commonly utilized system designs in autonomous robot navigation. While the global planner generates a reference path from the current to goal locations based on the pre-built…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kohei Honda , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Tadashi Kozuno

Robot navigation in dynamic, crowded environments poses a significant challenge due to the inherent uncertainties in the obstacle model. In this work, we propose a risk-adaptive approach based on the Conditional Value-at-Risk Barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xinyi Wang , Taekyung Kim , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos , Dimitra Panagou

Recently, the navigation of mobile robots in unknown environments has become a particularly significant research topic. Previous studies have primarily employed real-time environmental mapping using cameras and LiDAR, along with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yusuke Tsunoda , Shoken Otsuka , Kazuki Ito , Runze Xiao , Keisuke Naniwa , Yuichiro Sueoka , Koichi Osuka

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions for efficient data acquisition in complex…

This paper introduces DYNUS, an uncertainty-aware trajectory planner designed for dynamic unknown environments. Operating in such settings presents many challenges -- most notably, because the agent cannot predict the ground-truth future…

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of game-like environments. However, the application of deep RL to visual navigation with realistic environments is a challenging task. We propose a novel learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Tim de Bruin , Robert Babuška

Autonomous exploration requires robots to generate informative trajectories iteratively. Although sampling-based methods are highly efficient in unmanned aerial vehicle exploration, many of these methods do not effectively utilize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhefan Xu , Di Deng , Kenji Shimada

Mobile robots navigating in crowds trained using reinforcement learning are known to suffer performance degradation when faced with out-of-distribution scenarios. We propose that by properly accounting for the uncertainties of pedestrians,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jianpeng Yao , Xiaopan Zhang , Yu Xia , Zejin Wang , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Jiachen Li