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In this research, we investigate the subject of path-finding. A pruned version of visibility graph based on Candidate Vertices is formulated, followed by a new visibility check technique. Such combination enables us to quickly identify the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pei Cao , Zhaoyan Fan , Robert X. Gao , Jiong Tang

Path planning, which aims to find a collision-free path between two locations, is critical for numerous applications ranging from mobile robots to self-driving vehicles. Traditional search-based methods like A* search guarantee path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangyu Chen , Fan Yang , Chen Wang

We present a legged motion planning approach for quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain. We decompose the problem into body action planning and footstep planning. We use a lattice representation together with a set of defined body…

Sampling-based methods for motion planning, which capture the structure of the robot's free space via (typically random) sampling, have gained popularity due to their scalability, simplicity, and for offering global guarantees, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Itai Panasoff , Kiril Solovey

Heuristic search-based motion planning algorithms typically discretise the search space in order to solve the shortest path problem. Their performance is closely related to this discretisation. A fine discretisation allows for better…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Dhruv Mauria Saxena , Tushar Kusnur , Maxim Likhachev

In this work, we propose a search-based planning method to compute dynamically feasible trajectories for a quadrotor flying in an obstacle-cluttered environment. Our approach searches for smooth, minimum-time trajectories by exploring the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Sikang Liu , Nikolay Atanasov , Kartik Mohta , Vijay Kumar

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) determines an ensemble of collision-free paths for multiple agents between their respective start and goal locations. Among the available MAPF planners for workspace modeled as a graph, A*-based approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Motion-planning problems, such as manipulation in cluttered environments, often require a collision-free shortest path to be computed quickly given a roadmap graph. Typically, the computational cost of evaluating whether an edge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Aditya Mandalika , Oren Salzman , Siddhartha Srinivasa

This work proposes a motion planning algorithm for robotic manipulators that combines sampling-based and search-based planning methods. The core contribution of the proposed approach is the usage of burs of free configuration space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Benjamin Kraljusic , Zlatan Ajanovic , Nermin Covic , Bakir Lacevic

Automated driving in urban scenarios requires efficient planning algorithms able to handle complex situations in real-time. A popular approach is to use graph-based planning methods in order to obtain a rough trajectory which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Oliver Speidel , Jona Ruof , Klaus Dietmayer

This paper introduces a hierarchical framework that integrates graph search algorithms and model predictive control to facilitate efficient parking maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in constrained environments. In the high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Xuemin Chi , Zhitao Liu , Jihao Huang , Feng Hong , Hongye Su

Rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs) have proven effective in quickly finding feasible solutions to complex motion planning problems. RRT* is an extension of the RRT algorithm that provides probabilistic asymptotic optimality guarantees…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 James Swedeen , Greg Droge , Randall Christensen

2D path planning in static environment is a well-known problem and one of the common ways to solve it is to 1) represent the environment as a grid and 2) perform a heuristic search for a path on it. At the same time 2D grid resembles much a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Natalia Soboleva , Konstantin Yakovlev

This paper proposes a robust lattice-based motion-planning algorithm for nonlinear systems affected by a bounded disturbance. The proposed motion planner utilizes the nominal disturbance-free system model to generate motion primitives,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Abhishek Dhar , Carl Hynén , Johan Löfberg , Daniel Axehill

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

Parallelization of A* path planning is mostly limited by the number of possible motions, which is far less than the level of parallelism that modern processors support. In this paper, we go beyond the limitations of traditional parallelism…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohammad Bakhshalipour , Mohamad Qadri , Dominic Guri

It is difficult for robots to retrieve objects in densely cluttered lateral access scenes with movable objects as jamming against adjacent objects and walls can inhibit progress. We propose the use of two action primitives -- burrowing and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Dane Brouwer , Joshua Citron , Hojung Choi , Marion Lepert , Michael Lin , Jeannette Bohg , Mark Cutkosky

Neural graphics primitives are faster and achieve higher quality when their neural networks are augmented by spatial data structures that hold trainable features arranged in a grid. However, existing feature grids either come with a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Towaki Takikawa , Thomas Müller , Merlin Nimier-David , Alex Evans , Sanja Fidler , Alec Jacobson , Alexander Keller

Memetic algorithms are popular hybrid search heuristics that integrate local search into the search process of an evolutionary algorithm in order to combine the advantages of rapid exploitation and global optimisation. However, these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Phan Trung Hai Nguyen , Dirk Sudholt

The Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP), typically posed on a graph, determines a set of paths from a start vertex to a destination vertex while optimizing multiple objectives. In general, there does not exist a single solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Valmiki Kothare , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset