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Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao

Sampling-based motion planning is the predominant paradigm in many real-world robotic applications, but its performance is immensely dependent on the quality of the samples. The majority of traditional planners are inefficient as they use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tin Lai , Fabio Ramos

We present a novel approach to path planning for robotic manipulators, in which paths are produced via iterative optimisation in the latent space of a generative model of robot poses. Constraints are incorporated through the use of…

Planning has been very successful for control tasks with known environment dynamics. To leverage planning in unknown environments, the agent needs to learn the dynamics from interactions with the world. However, learning dynamics models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Danijar Hafner , Timothy Lillicrap , Ian Fischer , Ruben Villegas , David Ha , Honglak Lee , James Davidson

In this work, we present a novel sampling-based path planning method, called SPRINT. The method finds solutions for high dimensional path planning problems quickly and robustly. Its efficiency comes from minimizing the number of collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Daniel Rakita , Bilge Mutlu , Michael Gleicher

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

Many robot planning tasks require satisfaction of one or more constraints throughout the entire trajectory. For geometric constraints, manifold-constrained motion planning algorithms are capable of planning collision-free path between start…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Shrutheesh R Iyer , I-Chia Chang , Andrew Z. Liu , Yan Gu , Zachary Kingston

Humans exhibit incredibly high levels of multi-modal understanding - combining visual cues with read, or heard knowledge comes easy to us and allows for very accurate interaction with the surrounding environment. Various simulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Michal Nazarczuk , Tony Ng , Krystian Mikolajczyk

The selection of base station sites is a critical challenge in 5G network planning, which requires efficient optimization of coverage, cost, user satisfaction, and practical constraints. Traditional manual methods, reliant on human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zongyuan Deng , Yujie Cai , Qing Liu , Shiyao Mu , Bin Lyu , Zhen Yang

This paper introduces a new method for robot motion planning and navigation in uneven environments through a surfel representation of underlying point clouds. The proposed method addresses the shortcomings of state-of-the-art navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Fetullah Atas , Grzegorz Cielniak , Lars Grimstad

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

Generative models such as diffusion models, excel at capturing high-dimensional distributions with diverse input modalities, e.g. robot trajectories, but are less effective at multi-step constraint reasoning. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP)…

This paper presents a novel method to generate spatial constraints for motion planning in dynamic environments. Motion planning methods for autonomous driving and mobile robots typically need to rely on the spatial constraints imposed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Han Hu , Peyman Yadmellat

Robotic manipulation in complex, constrained spaces is vital for widespread applications but challenging, particularly when navigating narrow passages with elongated objects. Existing planning methods often fail in these low-clearance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zihao Li , Yiming Zhu , Zhe Zhong , Qinyuan Ren , Yijiang Huang

High-dimensional manipulator operation in unstructured environments requires a differentiable, scene-agnostic distance query mechanism to guide safe motion generation. Existing geometric collision checkers are typically non-differentiable,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haohua Chen , Yixuan Zhou , Yifan Zhou , Hesheng Wang

This paper deals with a path planning and intelligent control of an autonomous robot which should move safely in partially structured environment. This environment may involve any number of obstacles of arbitrary shape and size; some of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Danica Janglova

Neural networks have shown great promises in planning, control, and general decision making for learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSs), especially in improving performance under complex scenarios. However, it is very challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiangguo Liu , Chao Huang , Yixuan Wang , Bowen Zheng , Qi Zhu

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

Unet and its variations have been standard in semantic image segmentation, especially for computer assisted radiology. Current Unet architectures iteratively downsample spatial resolution while increasing channel dimensions to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ture Hassler , Ida Åkerholm , Marcus Nordström , Gabriele Balletti , Orcun Goksel

We present an algorithm that produces a plan for relocating obstacles in order to grasp a target in clutter by a robotic manipulator without collisions. We consider configurations where objects are densely populated in a constrained and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Jinhwi Lee , Younggil Cho , Changjoo Nam , Jonghyeon Park , Changhwan Kim