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In this paper, we propose a framework for fast trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our framework is reformulated from an existing bilevel optimization, in which the lower-level problem solves for the optimal trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qianzhong Chen , Sheng Cheng , Naira Hovakimyan

We consider the problem of planning a collision-free path for a high-dimensional robot. Specifically, we suggest a planning framework where a motion-planning algorithm can obtain guidance from a user. In contrast to existing approaches that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Fahad Islam , Oren Salzman , Maxim Likhachev

The paper proposes a reliable and robust planning solution to the long range robotic navigation problem in extremely cluttered environments. A two-layer planning architecture is proposed that leverages both the environment map and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Shakeeb Ahmad , Andrew B. Mills , Eugene R. Rush , Eric W. Frew , J. Sean Humbert

Recent advancements in self-driving car technologies have enabled them to navigate autonomously through various environments. However, one of the critical challenges in autonomous vehicle operation is trajectory planning, especially in…

Generating overtaking trajectories in high-speed scenarios is typically addressed through hierarchical planning, which often suffers from local optima due to single initial solutions and low computational efficiency during numerical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Entao Sun , Lei Xie , Hongye Su

Fast and efficient path generation is critical for robots operating in complex environments. This motion planning problem is often performed in a robot's actuation or configuration space, where popular pathfinding methods such as A*, RRT*,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mayur J. Bency , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Robot navigation in large, complex, and unknown indoor environments is a challenging problem. The existing approaches, such as traditional sampling-based methods, struggle with resolution control and scalability, while imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Wei Han Chen , Yuchen Liu , Alexiy Buynitsky , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Autonomous robots navigating in off-road terrain like forests open new opportunities for automation. While off-road navigation has been studied, existing work often relies on clearly delineated pathways. We present a method allowing for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jean-François Tremblay , Julie Alhosh , Louis Petit , Faraz Lotfi , Lara Landauro , David Meger

The ability to solve motion-planning queries within a fixed time budget is critical for deploying robotic systems in time-sensitive applications. Semi-static environments, where most of the workspace remains fixed while a subset of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Niranjan Kumar Ilampooranan , Constantinos Chamzas

Path-planning algorithms are an important part of a wide variety of robotic applications, such as mobile robot navigation and robot arm manipulation. However, in large search spaces in which local traps may exist, it remains challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yuka Ariki , Takuya Narihira

Trained humans exhibit highly agile spatial skills, enabling them to operate vehicles with complex dynamics in demanding tasks and conditions. Prior work shows that humans achieve this performance by using strategies such as satisficing,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Andrew Feit , Bérénice Mettler

Trajectory planning for quadrotors in cluttered environments has been challenging in recent years. While many trajectory planning frameworks have been successful, there still exists potential for improvements, particularly in enhancing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Pengyu Wang , Jiawei Tang , Hin Wang Lin , Fan Zhang , Chaoqun Wang , Jiankun Wang , Ling Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

For rapid growth in technology and automation, human tasks are being taken over by robots as robots have proven to be better with both speed and precision. One of the major and widespread usages of these robots is in the industrial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari , Sandeep Varma Nadimpalli

We present a biologically inspired approach for path planning with dynamic obstacle avoidance. Path planning is performed in a condensed configuration space of a robot generated by self-organizing neural networks (SONN). The robot itself…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Lea Steffen , Tobias Weyer , Stefan Ulbrich , Arne Roennau , Rüdiger Dillmann

This paper develops a new approach for robot motion planning and control in obstacle-laden environments that is inspired by fundamentals of fluid mechanics. For motion planning, we propose a novel transformation between motion space, with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Mohamadreza Ramezani , Hossein Rastgoftar

Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology (USVs) is an exciting topic that essentially deploys an algorithm to safely and efficiently performs a mission. Although reinforcement learning is a well-known approach to modeling such a task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Mohammad Etemad , Nader Zare , Mahtab Sarvmaili , Amilcar Soares , Bruno Brandoli Machado , Stan Matwin

For accomplishing a variety of missions in challenging environments, the capability of navigating with full autonomy while avoiding unexpected obstacles is the most crucial requirement for UAVs in real applications. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Han Chen , Peng Lu

This paper investigates Path planning Among Movable Obstacles (PAMO), which seeks a minimum cost collision-free path among static obstacles from start to goal while allowing the robot to push away movable obstacles (i.e., objects) along its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhongqiang Ren , Bunyod Suvonov , Guofei Chen , Botao He , Yijie Liao , Cornelia Fermuller , Ji Zhang

We consider the path planning problem for a 2-link robot amidst polygonal obstacles. Our robot is parametrizable by the lengths $\ell_1, \ell_2>0$ of its two links, the thickness $\tau \ge 0$ of the links, and an angle $\kappa$ that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Chee K. Yap , Zhongdi Luo , Ching-Hsiang Hsu

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal