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The presence of task constraints imposes a significant challenge to motion planning. Despite all recent advancements, existing algorithms are still computationally expensive for most planning problems. In this paper, we present Constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Jiangeng Dong , Austin Choe , Michael C. Yip

This paper describes Motion Planning Networks (MPNet), a computationally efficient, learning-based neural planner for solving motion planning problems. MPNet uses neural networks to learn general near-optimal heuristics for path planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Yinglong Miao , Anthony Simeonov , Michael C. Yip

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Sampling-based algorithms are widely used for motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces. However, due to low sampling efficiency, their performance often diminishes in complex configuration spaces with narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lu Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

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

Robot motion planning involves computing a sequence of valid robot configurations that take the robot from its initial state to a goal state. Solving a motion planning problem optimally using analytical methods is proven to be PSPACE-Hard.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Naman Shah , Abhyudaya Srinet , Siddharth Srivastava

When planning motions in a configuration space that has underlying symmetries (e.g. when manipulating one or multiple symmetric objects), the ideal planning algorithm should take advantage of those symmetries to produce shorter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Thomas Cohn , Russ Tedrake

Sampling-based Motion Planners (SMPs) have become increasingly popular as they provide collision-free path solutions regardless of obstacle geometry in a given environment. However, their computational complexity increases significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

We address the problem of planning robot motions in constrained configuration spaces where the constraints change throughout the motion. The problem is formulated as a fixed sequence of intersecting manifolds, which the robot needs to…

Sampling-based methods are widely adopted solutions for robot motion planning. The methods are straightforward to implement, effective in practice for many robotic systems. It is often possible to prove that they have desirable properties,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Troy McMahon , Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Kostas E. Bekris

Fast and efficient motion planning algorithms are crucial for many state-of-the-art robotics applications such as self-driving cars. Existing motion planning methods become ineffective as their computational complexity increases…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Anthony Simeonov , Mayur J. Bency , Michael C. Yip

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

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…

Sampling-based path planning algorithms suffer from heavy reliance on uniform sampling, which accounts for unreliable and time-consuming performance, especially in complex environments. Recently, neural-network-driven methods predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yuan Huang , Cheng-Tien Tsao , Tianyu Shen , Hee-Hyol Lee

Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jacob J. Johnson , Uday S. Kalra , Ankit Bhatia , Linjun Li , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Despite the performance advantages of modern sampling-based motion planners, solving high dimensional planning problems in near real-time remains a challenge. Applications include hyper-redundant manipulators, snake-like and humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marios P. Xanthidis , Joel M. Esposito , Ioannis Rekleitis , Jason M. O'Kane

This paper presents a sampling-based motion planning framework that leverages the geometry of obstacles in a workspace as well as prior experiences from motion planning problems. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Keita Kobashi , Changhao Wang , Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

This paper presents Latent Sampling-based Motion Planning (L-SBMP), a methodology towards computing motion plans for complex robotic systems by learning a plannable latent representation. Recent works in control of robotic systems have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Brian Ichter , Marco Pavone

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used to compute dynamically feasible robot paths. However, their reliance on uniform sampling often leads to poor efficiency and slow planning in complex environments. We introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shubham Natraj , Bruno Sinopoli , Yiannis Kantaros

In robots task and motion planning (TAMP), it is crucial to sample within the robot's configuration space to meet task-level global constraints and enhance the efficiency of subsequent motion planning. Due to the complexity of joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yanlong Peng , Zhigang Wang , Ziwen He , Pengxu Chang , Chuangchuang Zhou , Yu Yan , Ming Chen
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