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Autonomous trajectory generation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in unknown environments continues to be an important research area as UAVs become more prolific. We define a trajectory generation algorithm for a vehicle in an unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Kenan Cole , Adam Wickenheiser

Being able to safely operate for extended periods of time in dynamic environments is a critical capability for autonomous systems. This generally involves the prediction and understanding of motion patterns of dynamic entities, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Weiming Zhi , Tin Lai , Lionel Ott , Gilad Francis , Fabio Ramos

Preliminary spacecraft trajectory optimization is a parameter dependent global search problem that aims to provide a set of solutions that are of high quality and diverse. In the case of numerical solution, it is dependent on the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Ryne Beeson , Anjian Li , Amlan Sinha

We present a novel learning-based trajectory generation algorithm for outdoor robot navigation. Our goal is to compute collision-free paths that also satisfy the environment-specific traversability constraints. Our approach is designed for…

Joint space trajectory optimization under end-effector task constraints leads to a challenging non-convex problem. Thus, a real-time adaptation of prior computed trajectories to perturbation in task constraints often becomes intractable.…

We consider joint trajectory generation and tracking control for under-actuated robotic systems. A common solution is to use a layered control architecture, where the top layer uses a simplified model of system dynamics for trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Anusha Srikanthan , Fengjun Yang , Igor Spasojevic , Dinesh Thakur , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni

Trajectory generation for visually impaired scenarios requires smooth and temporally consistent state in structured, low-speed dynamic environments. However, traditional jerk-based heuristic trajectory sampling with independent segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yuting Zeng , Manping Fan , You Zhou , Yongbin Yu , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingtao Zhang , Liyong Ren , Zhenglin Yang

Trajectory prediction and generation are crucial for autonomous robots in dynamic environments. While prior research has typically focused on either prediction or generation, our approach unifies these tasks to provide a versatile framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sean Ye , Matthew Gombolay

Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces. Unfortunately, it is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Simon Idoko , Prajyot Jadhav , Arun Kumar Singh

Model Predictive Control lacks the ability to escape local minima in nonconvex problems. Furthermore, in fast-changing, uncertain environments, the conventional warmstart, using the optimal trajectory from the last timestep, often falls…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Mohamed-Khalil Bouzidi , Yue Yao , Daniel Goehring , Joerg Reichardt

This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingshan Chen , Bochen Yu , Henrik Ebel , Peter Eberhard

Deep generative replay has emerged as a promising approach for continual learning in decision-making tasks. This approach addresses the problem of catastrophic forgetting by leveraging the generation of trajectories from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 William Yue , Bo Liu , Peter Stone

Prediction of human motions is key for safe navigation of autonomous robots among humans. In cluttered environments, several motion hypotheses may exist for a pedestrian, due to its interactions with the environment and other pedestrians.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Bruno Brito , Hai Zhu , Wei Pan , Javier Alonso-Mora

Optimizing complex and high-dimensional black-box functions is ubiquitous in science and engineering fields. Unfortunately, the online evaluation of these functions is restricted due to time and safety constraints in most cases. In offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Taeyoung Yun , Sujin Yun , Jaewoo Lee , Jinkyoo Park

Machine learning has demonstrated remarkable promise for solving the trajectory generation problem and in paving the way for online use of trajectory optimization for resource-constrained spacecraft. However, a key shortcoming in current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Breanna Johnson , Richard Linares , Abhishek Cauligi

A novel decentralised trajectory generation algorithm for Multi Agent systems is presented. Multi-robot systems have the capacity to transform lives in a variety of fields. But, trajectory generation for multi-robot systems is still in its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Vijay Arvindh , Sivanathan K

Trajectory data play a crucial role in many applications, ranging from network optimization to urban planning. Existing studies on trajectory data are task-specific, and their applicability is limited to the specific tasks on which they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Qingyue Long , Can Rong , Huandong Wang , Yong Li

Trajectory prediction and behavioral decision-making are two important tasks for autonomous vehicles that require good understanding of the environmental context; behavioral decisions are better made by referring to the outputs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Hongyu Hu , Qi Wang , Zhengguang Zhang , Zhengyi Li , Zhenhai Gao

Differential drive robots are widely used in various scenarios thanks to their straightforward principle, from household service robots to disaster response field robots. There are several types of driving mechanisms for real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Mengke Zhang , Nanhe Chen , Hu Wang , Jianxiong Qiu , Zhichao Han , Qiuyu Ren , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

Learning from Demonstration depends on a robot learner generalising its learned model to unseen conditions, as it is not feasible for a person to provide a demonstration set that accounts for all possible variations in non-trivial tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Aran Sena , Brendan Michael , Matthew Howard