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Expressive motion planning for Aerial Manipulators (AMs) is essential for tackling complex manipulation tasks, yet achieving coupled trajectory planning adaptive to various tasks remains challenging, especially for those requiring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Weiliang Deng , Hongming Chen , Biyu Ye , Haoran Chen , Ziliang Li , Ximin Lyu

Human motion prediction is essential for the safe and smooth operation of mobile service robots and intelligent vehicles around people. Commonly used neural network-based approaches often require large amounts of complete trajectories to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yufei Zhu , Andrey Rudenko , Tomasz P. Kucner , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

This paper aims to improve the computational efficiency of motion planning for mobile robots with non-trivial dynamics through the use of learned controllers. Offline, a system-specific controller is first trained in an empty environment.…

Autonomous systems, including robots and drones, face significant challenges when navigating through dynamic environments, particularly within urban settings where obstacles, fluctuating traffic, and pedestrian activity are constantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Daniel Ajeleye

We propose a new scheme to learn motion planning constraints from human driving trajectories. Behavioral and motion planning are the key components in an autonomous driving system. The behavioral planning is responsible for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kasra Rezaee , Peyman Yadmellat

The rarefied flow and multi-scale flow are crucial for the aerodynamic design of spacecraft, ultra-low orbital vehicles and plumes. By introducing a discrete velocity space, the Boltzmann method, such as the discrete velocity method and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Jianfeng Chen , Sha Liu , Rui Zhang , Chengwen Zhong , Yanguang Yang , Congshan Zhuo

Many autonomous driving motion planners generate trajectories by optimizing a reward/cost functional. Designing and tuning a high-performance reward/cost functional for Level-4 autonomous driving vehicles with exposure to different driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Haoyang Fan , Zhongpu Xia , Changchun Liu , Yaqin Chen , Qi Kong

Accurately predicting future behaviors of surrounding vehicles is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles in order to plan safe and feasible trajectories. The behaviors of others, however, are full of uncertainties. Both rational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yeping Hu , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Real-time kinodynamic trajectory planning in dynamic environments is critical yet challenging for autonomous driving. In this letter, we propose an efficient trajectory planning system for autonomous driving in complex dynamic scenarios…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Cheng Jie , Chen Yingbing , Zhang Qingwen , Gan Lu , Liu Ming

Behavior and motion planning play an important role in automated driving. Traditionally, behavior planners instruct local motion planners with predefined behaviors. Due to the high scene complexity in urban environments, unpredictable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Sascha Rosbach , Vinit James , Simon Großjohann , Silviu Homoceanu , Stefan Roth

In this paper, we propose a search-based interactive motion planning scheme for autonomous vehicles (AVs), using a game-theoretic approach. In contrast to traditional search-based approaches, the newly developed approach considers other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pouya Panahandeh , Mohammad Pirani , Baris Fidan , Amir Khajepour

The autonomous driving industry is expected to grow by over 20 times in the coming decade and, thus, motivate researchers to delve into it. The primary focus of their research is to ensure safety, comfort, and efficiency. An autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jilan Samiuddin , Benoit Boulet , Di Wu

Driving vehicles in complex scenarios under harsh conditions is the biggest challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). To address this issue, we propose hierarchical motion planning and robust control strategy using the front-active steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Hung Duy Nguyen , Minh Nhat Vu , Nguyen Ngoc Nam , Kyoungseok Han

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles requires generating collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectories in complex environments under real-time constraints. While nonlinear optimal control formulations provide high-fidelity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matheus Wagner , Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

This paper presents aUToPath, a unified online framework for global path-planning and control to address the challenge of autonomous navigation in cluttered urban environments. A key component of our framework is a novel hybrid planner that…

Autonomous robot navigation systems often rely on hierarchical planning, where global planners compute collision-free paths without considering dynamics, and local planners enforce dynamics constraints to produce executable commands. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuanjie Lu , Mingyang Mao , Tong Xu , Linji Wang , Xiaomin Lin , Xuesu Xiao

The paper addresses the problem of providing suitable reference trajectories in motion planning problems for autonomous vehicles. Among the various approaches to compute a reference trajectory, our aim is to find those trajectories which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Matthias Gerdts , Björn Martens

Motion planning for a general 2-trailer system poses a hard problem for any motion planning algorithm and previous methods have lacked any completeness or optimality guarantees. In this work we present a lattice-based motion planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Oskar Ljungqvist , Niclas Evestedt , Marcello Cirillo , Daniel Axehill , Olov Holmer

While motion planning techniques for automated vehicles in a reactive and anticipatory manner are already widely presented, approaches to cooperative motion planning are still remaining. In this paper, we present an approach to enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Maximilian Naumann , Christoph Stiller

Motion planning is a crucial aspect of robot autonomy as it involves identifying a feasible motion path to a destination while taking into consideration various constraints, such as input, safety, and performance constraints, without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Dengyu Zhang , Guobin Zhu , Qingrui Zhang