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Motivated by the problem of pursuit-evasion, we present a motion planning framework that combines energy-based diffusion models with artificial potential fields for robust real time trajectory generation in complex environments. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Wondmgezahu Teshome , Kian Behzad , Octavia Camps , Michael Everett , Milad Siami , Mario Sznaier

State-of-the-art generalist manipulation policies have enabled the deployment of robotic manipulators in unstructured human environments. However, these frameworks struggle in cluttered environments primarily because they utilize auxiliary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Davood Soleymanzadeh , Ivan Lopez-Sanchez , Hao Su , Yunzhu Li , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Reliable real-time planning for robots is essential in today's rapidly expanding automated ecosystem. In such environments, traditional methods that plan by relaxing constraints become unreliable or slow-down for kinematically constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Jacob J. Johnson , Linjun Li , Fei Liu , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

To reduce the computational cost of humanoid motion generation, we introduce a new approach to representing robot kinematic reachability: the differentiable reachability map. This map is a scalar-valued function defined in the task space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Masaki Murooka , Iori Kumagai , Mitsuharu Morisawa , Fumio Kanehiro

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

An efficient path planner for autonomous car-like vehicles should handle the strong kinematic constraints, particularly in confined spaces commonly encountered while maneuvering in city traffic, and should enable rapid planning, as the city…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Piotr Kicki , Tomasz Gawron , Piotr Skrzypczyński

In fast-paced, ever-changing environments, dynamic Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Systems in the presence of obstacles is a universal and unsolved problem. Be it from path planning around obstacles to the movement of robotic arms, or in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brandon Ho , Batuhan Altundas , Matthew Gombolay

Model-based control is a crucial component of robotic navigation. However, it often struggles with entrapment in local minima due to its inherent nature as a finite, myopic optimization procedure. Previous studies have addressed this issue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Takahiro Fuke , Masafumi Endo , Kohei Honda , Genya Ishigami

We describe an algorithm for motion planning based on expert demonstrations of a skill. In order to teach robots to perform complex object manipulation tasks that can generalize robustly to new environments, we must (1) learn a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Chris Paxton , Marin Kobilarov , Gregory D. Hager

Constrained motion planning is a common but challenging problem in robotic manipulation. In recent years, data-driven constrained motion planning algorithms have shown impressive planning speed and success rate. Among them, the latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiawei Zhang , Chengchao Bai , Wei Pan , Tianhang Liu , Jifeng Guo

Planning over unstructured terrain presents a significant challenge in the field of legged robotics. Although recent works in reinforcement learning have yielded various locomotion strategies, planning over multiple experts remains a…

Generating accurate and efficient predictions for the motion of the humans present in the scene is key to the development of effective motion planning algorithms for robots moving in promiscuous areas, where wrong planning decisions could…

Learning and inference movement is a very challenging problem due to its high dimensionality and dependency to varied environments or tasks. In this paper, we propose an effective probabilistic method for learning and inference of basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Mingxuan Jing , Xiaojian Ma , Fuchun Sun , Huaping Liu

Constrained motion planning is a challenging field of research, aiming for computationally efficient methods that can find a collision-free path on the constraint manifolds between a given start and goal configuration. These planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Asfiya Baig , Michael C. Yip

The challenge of mapping indoor environments is addressed. Typical heuristic algorithms for solving the motion planning problem are frontier-based methods, that are especially effective when the environment is completely unknown. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Elchanan Zwecher , Eran Iceland , Sean R. Levy , Shmuel Y. Hayoun , Oren Gal , Ariel Barel

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

Continuous optimization based motion planners require specifying a maneuver class before calculating the optimal trajectory for that class. In traffic, the intentions of other participants are often unclear, presenting multiple maneuver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ömer Şahin Taş , Philipp Heinrich Brusius , Christoph Stiller

Randomized sampling based algorithms are widely used in robot motion planning due to the problem's intractability, and are experimentally effective on a wide range of problem instances. Most variants do not sample uniformly at random, and…

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