English
Related papers

Related papers: Motion Planning for Minimally Actuated Serial Robo…

200 papers

Generating high-quality motion plans for multiple robot arms is challenging due to the high dimensionality of the system and the potential for inter-arm collisions. Traditional motion planning methods often produce motions that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Philip Huang , Yorai Shaoul , Jiaoyang Li

Most existing methods for motion planning of mobile robots involve generating collision-free trajectories. However, these methods focusing solely on contact avoidance may limit the robots' locomotion and can not be applied to tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Haokun Wang , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

We address the challenge of real-time planning of minimum-time trajectories over multiple waypoints, onboard multirotor UAVs. Previous works demonstrated that achieving a truly time-optimal trajectory is computationally too demanding to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Krystof Teissing , Matej Novosad , Robert Penicka , Martin Saska

Safely deploying robots in uncertain and dynamic environments requires a systematic accounting of various risks, both within and across layers in an autonomy stack from perception to motion planning and control. Many widely used motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Venkatraman Renganathan , Iman Shames , Tyler H. Summers

We introduce a new, analytical method for generating whole-body motions for humanoid robots, which approximate the desired Composite Rigid Body (CRB) inertia. Our approach uses a reduced five mass model, where four of the masses are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Grzegorz Ficht , Sven Behnke

Intelligent robots provide a new insight into efficiency improvement in industrial and service scenarios to replace human labor. However, these scenarios include dense and dynamic obstacles that make motion planning of robots challenging.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Chengmin Zhou , Bingding Huang , Pasi Fränti

In the coordinated motion planning problem, we are given a graph together with the starting and destination vertices of $k$ robots. At each time step, any subset of robots may move, each traversing an edge of the graph, provided that no two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj

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

This paper proposes a preliminary work on a Conditional Task and Motion Planning algorithm able to find a plan that minimizes robot efforts while solving assigned tasks. Unlike most of the existing approaches that replan a path only when it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Nicola Castaman , Elisa Tosello , Enrico Pagello

Trajectory generation in confined environment is crucial for wide adoption of intelligent robot manipulators. In this paper, we propose a novel motion planning approach for redundant robot arms that uses a hybrid optimization framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yifan Sun , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

Motion planning for robotic systems with complex dynamics is a challenging problem. While recent sampling-based algorithms achieve asymptotic optimality by propagating random control inputs, their empirical convergence rate is often poor,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Wolfgang Hoenig , Valentin N. Hartmann , Marc Toussaint

We study the problem of motion planning for a collection of $n$ labeled unit disc robots in a polygonal environment. We assume that the robots have revolving areas around their start and final positions: that each start and each final is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin , Erin Taylor

This paper proposes a redundancy resolution algorithm for a redundant manipulator based on dynamic programming. This algorithm can compute the desired joint angles at each point on a pre-planned discrete path in Cartesian space, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zhihang Yin , Fa Wu , Ruofan Bian , Ziqian Wang , Jianmin Yang , Jiyong Tan , Dexing Kong

Complex robot behaviors are often structured as state machines, where states encapsulate actions and a transition function switches between states. Since transitions depend on physical parameters, when the environment changes, a roboticist…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Jarrett Holtz , Arjun Guha , Joydeep Biswas

A novel reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided multi-robot network is proposed, where multiple mobile robots are served by an access point (AP) through non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The goal is to maximize the sum-rate of whole…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xinyu Gao , Xidong Mu , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu

Planning the motion path for a tightly coupled dual-arm space manipulator under closed-chain constraints is a fundamental yet challenging problem in on-orbit assembly of large-scale space structures. The closed-chain constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jiawei Zhang , Xinhao Miao , Jifeng Guo , Qinghua Li , Chengchao Bai

The linearization of the equations of motion of a robotics system about a given state-input trajectory, including a controlled equilibrium state, is a valuable tool for model-based planning, closed-loop control, gain tuning, and state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Martijn Bos , Silvio Traversaro , Daniele Pucci , Alessandro Saccon

Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing environments due to their efficiency in doing repetitive tasks such as assembly or welding. A common problem for these applications is to reach a destination without colliding with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Teham Bhuiyan , Linh Kästner , Yifan Hu , Benno Kutschank , Jens Lambrecht

Over the last 20 years significant effort has been dedicated to the development of sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as the Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) and its asymptotically optimal version (e.g. RRT*). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Georgios Papadopoulos , Hanna Kurniawati , Nicholas M. Patrikalakis

We present a new framework for prioritized multi-task motion-force control of fully-actuated robots. This work is established on a careful review and comparison of the state of the art. Some control frameworks are not optimal, that is they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Andrea Del Prete , Francesco Nori , Giorgio Metta , Lorenzo Natale