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Autonomous motion planning is challenging in multi-obstacle environments due to nonconvex collision avoidance constraints. Directly applying numerical solvers to these nonconvex formulations fails to exploit the constraint structures,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ruihua Han , Shuai Wang , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Qianru Zhang , Yonina C. Eldar , Qi Hao , Jia Pan

Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Essential tasks in autonomous driving includes environment perception, detection and tracking, path planning and action control. This paper focus on path planning, which is one of the challenging task as it needs to find optimal path in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sugirtha T , Pranav S , Nitin Benjamin Dasiah , Sridevi M

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

Safe and effective motion planning is crucial for autonomous robots. Diffusion models excel at capturing complex agent interactions, a fundamental aspect of decision-making in dynamic environments. Recent studies have successfully applied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Giwon Lee , Daehee Park , Jaewoo Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Path planning is a major problem in autonomous vehicles. In recent years, with the increase in applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), one of the main challenges is path planning, particularly in adversarial environments. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Mohammad Reza Ranjbar Divkoti , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

In this paper we address the problem of path planning in an unknown environment with an aerial robot. The main goal is to safely follow the planned trajectory by avoiding obstacles. The proposed approach is suitable for aerial vehicles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ana Batinovic , Jurica Goricanec , Lovro Markovic , Stjepan Bogdan

We describe a novel approach for computing collision-free \emph{global} trajectories for $p$ agents with specified initial and final configurations, based on an improved version of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jose Bento , Nate Derbinsky , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jonathan Yedidia

The problem of optimal feedback planning among obstacles in d-dimensional configuration spaces is considered. We present a sampling-based, asymptotically optimal feedback planning method. Our method combines an incremental construction of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Dmitry Yershov , Michael Otte , Emilio Frazzoli

Uncertain dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians or vehicles, pose a major challenge for optimal robot navigation with safety guarantees. Previous work on motion planning has followed two main strategies to provide a safe bound on an…

This paper presents a free space trajectory optimization algorithm of autonomous driving vehicle, which decouples the collision-free trajectory planning problem into a Dual-Loop Iterative Anchoring Path Smoothing (DL-IAPS) and a Piece-wise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Jinyun Zhou , Runxin He , Yu Wang , Shu Jiang , Zhenguang Zhu , Jiangtao Hu , Jinghao Miao , Qi Luo

We study the navigation problem for a robot moving amidst static and dynamic obstacles and rely on a hierarchical approach to solve it. First, the reference trajectory is planned by the safe interval path planning algorithm that is capable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk , Juliya Belinskaya , Dmitry Makarov

Vehicle trajectory planning is a key component for an autonomous driving system. A practical system not only requires the component to compute a feasible trajectory, but also a comfortable one given certain comfort metrics. Nevertheless,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yajia Zhang , Hongyi Sun , Ruizhi Chai , Daike Kang , Shan Li , Liyun Li

In this study, a single autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) aims to rendezvous with a submerged leader recovery vehicle through a cluttered and variable operating field. The rendezvous problem is transformed into a nonlinear optimal control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , Amir Mehdi Yazdani , Karl Sammut , David M. W Powers

It is a challenging task for ground robots to autonomously navigate in harsh environments due to the presence of non-trivial obstacles and uneven terrain. This requires trajectory planning that balances safety and efficiency. The primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Zhang , Yinchuan Wang , Wangtao Lu , Pengyu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yue Wang , Chaoqun Wang

Feedback motion planning over cell decompositions provides a robust method for generating collision-free robot motion with formal guarantees. However, existing algorithms often produce paths with unnecessary bending, leading to slower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Aref Amiri , Steven M. LaValle

This paper introduces a novel trajectory planner for autonomous robots, specifically designed to enhance navigation by incorporating dynamic obstacle avoidance within the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) and Navigation 2 (Nav2) framework.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Eric Schöneberg , Michael Schröder , Daniel Görges , Hans D. Schotten

The paper represents an algorithm for planning safe and optimal routes for transport facilities with unrestricted movement direction that travel within areas with obstacles. Paper explains the algorithm using a ship as an example of such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ivan Yanchin , Oleg Petrov

In many mobile robotics scenarios, such as drone racing, the goal is to generate a trajectory that passes through multiple waypoints in minimal time. This problem is referred to as time-optimal planning. State-of-the-art approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza