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This paper presents a numerical optimization algorithm for generating approach and landing trajectories for a six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) aircraft. We improve on the existing research on aircraft landing trajectory generation by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Taewan Kim , Abhinav G. Kamath , Niyousha Rahimi , Jasper Corleis , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Mehran Mesbahi

Contact-implicit trajectory optimization (CITO) is an effective method to plan complex trajectories for various contact-rich systems including manipulation and locomotion. CITO formulates a mathematical program with complementarity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Mengchao Zhang , Devesh K. Jha , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Kris Hauser

Controller performance in quadrotor trajectory tracking depends heavily on parameter tuning, yet standard approaches often rely on fixed, manually tuned parameters that sacrifice task-specific performance. We present Trajectory-Aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hersh Sanghvi , Spencer Folk , Vijay Kumar , Camillo Jose Taylor

We address the problem of adapting robot trajectories to improve safety, comfort, and efficiency in human-robot collaborative tasks. To this end, we propose CoMOTO, a trajectory optimization framework that utilizes stochastic motion…

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

This paper introduces Function-space Adaptive Constrained Trajectory Optimization (FACTO), a new trajectory optimization algorithm for both single- and multi-arm manipulators. Trajectory representations are parameterized as linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yichang Feng , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

Motion planning for urban environments with numerous moving agents can be viewed as a combinatorial problem. With passing an obstacle before, after, right or left, there are multiple options an autonomous vehicle could choose to execute.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Klemens Esterle , Patrick Hart , Julian Bernhard , Alois Knoll

Moment-based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) provides an optimization framework to integrate statistical information with traditional optimization approaches. Under this framework, one assumes that the underlying joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Shiyi Jiang , Jianqiang Cheng , Kai Pan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

The idea of iterative process optimization based on collected output measurements, or "real-time optimization" (RTO), has gained much prominence in recent decades, with many RTO algorithms being proposed, researched, and developed. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Gene A. Bunin , Grégory François , Dominique Bonvin

We address the decision-making capability within an end-to-end planning framework that focuses on motion prediction, decision-making, and trajectory planning. Specifically, we formulate decision-making and trajectory planning as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wenru Liu , Yongkang Song , Chengzhen Meng , Zhiyu Huang , Haochen Liu , Chen Lv , Jun Ma

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

With much research has been conducted into trajectory planning for quadrotors, planning with spatial and temporal optimal trajectories in real-time is still challenging. In this paper, we propose a framework for generating large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Zhepei Wang , Xin Zhou , Chao Xu , Jian Chu , Fei Gao

The PDPTW is an optimization vehicles routing problem which must meet requests for transport between suppliers and customers satisfying precedence, capacity and time constraints. We present, in this paper, a genetic algorithm for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-03 Imen Harbaoui Dridi , Ryan Kammarti , Pierre Borne , Mekki Ksouri

This article presents a multi-robot trajectory planning method which not only guarantees optimization feasibility and but also resolves deadlocks in obstacle-dense environments. The method is proposed via formulating a recursive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yuda Chen , Chenghan Wang , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

One of the keys to flying quadrotors is to optimize their trajectories within the set of collision-free corridors. These corridors impose nonconvex constraints on the trajectories, making real-time trajectory optimization challenging. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Yue Yu , Kartik Nagpal , Skye Mceowen , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Ufuk Topcu

Trajectory optimization problems for legged robots are commonly formulated with fixed contact schedules. These multi-phase Hybrid Trajectory Optimization (HTO) methods result in locally optimal trajectories, but the result depends heavily…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Michael R. Turski , Joseph Norby , Aaron M. Johnson

A redundant manipulator has multiple inverse kinematics solutions per end-effector pose. Accordingly, there can be many trajectories for joints that follow a given endeffector path in the Cartesian space. In this paper, we present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mincheul Kang , Heechan Shin , Donghyuk Kim , Sung-Eui Yoon

We propose a reachability approach for infinite and finite horizon multi-objective optimization problems for low-thrust spacecraft trajectory design. The main advantage of the proposed method is that the Pareto front can be efficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Nikolaus Vertovec , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kostas Margellos

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast flight in 3-D complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching method to find a safe, kinodynamic feasible and minimum-time initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Boyu Zhou , Fei Gao , Luqi Wang , Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

Continuous trajectory tracking control of quadrotors is complicated when considering noise from the environment. Due to the difficulty in modeling the environmental dynamics, tracking methodologies based on conventional control theory, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Boyuan Deng , Jian Sun , Zhuo Li , Gang Wang