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Trajectory Planning is a crucial word in Modern & Advanced Robotics. It's a way of generating a smooth and feasible path for the robot to follow over time. The process primarily takes several factors to generate the path, such as velocity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Arunabh Bora

Autonomous navigation requires robots to generate trajectories for collision avoidance efficiently. Although plenty of previous works have proven successful in generating smooth and spatially collision-free trajectories, their solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhefan Xu , Kenji Shimada

An effective method for optimizing path planning for a specific model of a 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) robot manipulator is presented as part of the motion planning of the manipulator using computer algebra. We assume that we are given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Takumu Okazaki , Akira Terui , Masahiko Mikawa

Automation of excavation tasks requires real-time trajectory planning satisfying various constraints. To guarantee both constraint feasibility and real-time trajectory re-plannability, we present an integrated framework for real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dongjae Lee , Inkyu Jang , Jeonghyun Byun , Hoseong Seo , H. Jin Kim

Inspired by sled-pulling dogs in transportation, we present a cable-trailer integrated with a quadruped robot system. The motion planning of this system faces challenges due to the interactions between the cable's state transitions, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wentao Zhang , Shaohang Xu , Gewei Zuo , Bolin Li , Jingbo Wang , Lijun Zhu

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking problem of an autonomous tractor-trailer system by using a fast distributed nonlinear model predictive control algorithm in combination with nonlinear moving horizon estimation for the state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Erkan Kayacan , Erdal Kayacan , Herman Ramon , Wouter Saeys

Trajectory generation in confined environment is crucial for wide adoption of intelligent robot manipulators. In this paper, we propose a novel motion planning approach for redundant robot arms that uses a hybrid optimization framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yifan Sun , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

Planning collision free trajectories in complex environments remains a core challenge in robotics. Existing corridor based planners which rely on decomposition of the free space into collision free subsets scale poorly with environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Akshay Jaitly , Jon Arrizabalaga , Guanrui Li

Trajectory optimization with contact-rich behaviors has recently gained attention for generating diverse locomotion behaviors without pre-specified ground contact sequences. However, these approaches rely on precise models of robot dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Luke Drnach , Ye Zhao

Trajectory optimization is a powerful tool for robot motion planning and control. State-of-the-art general-purpose nonlinear programming solvers are versatile, handle constraints effectively and provide a high numerical robustness, but they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Lander Vanroye , Ajay Sathya , Joris De Schutter , Wilm Decré

Scalable multi-robot transition is essential for ubiquitous adoption of robots. As a step towards it, a computationally efficient decentralized algorithm for continuous-time trajectory optimization in multi-robot scenarios based upon model…

We consider a system consisting of multiple mobile robots in which the user can at any time issue relocation tasks ordering one of the robots to move from its current location to a given destination location. In this paper, we deal with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Michal Čáp , Jiří Vokřínek , Alexander Kleiner

Replanning in temporal logic tasks is extremely difficult during the online execution of robots. This study introduces an effective path planner that computes solutions for temporal logic goals and instantly adapts to non-static and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yizhou Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

As robotic systems continue to address emerging issues in areas such as logistics, mobility, manufacturing, and disaster response, it is increasingly important to rapidly generate safe and energy-efficient trajectories. In this article, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Logan E. Beaver , Roberto Tron , Christos G. Cassandras

Trajectory prediction aims to estimate an entity's future path using its current position and historical movement data, benefiting fields like autonomous navigation, robotics, and human movement analytics. Deep learning approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Amirhossein Nadiri , Jing Li , Ali Faraji , Ghadeer Abuoda , Manos Papagelis

Multi-robot systems have begun to permeate into a variety of different fields, but collision-free navigation in a decentralized manner is still an arduous task. Typically, the navigation of high speed multi-robot systems demands replanning…

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.…

Trajectory optimization offers mature tools for motion planning in high-dimensional spaces under dynamic constraints. However, when facing complex configuration spaces, cluttered with obstacles, roboticists typically fall back to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Tobia Marcucci , Mark Petersen , David von Wrangel , Russ Tedrake

Robotic manipulation of deformable objects remains a challenging task. One such task is folding a garment autonomously. Given start and end folding positions, what is an optimal trajectory to move the robotic arm to fold a garment? Certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Yinxiao Li , Yonghao Yue , Danfei Xu , Eitan Grinspun , Peter Allen

In this paper we present a method for automatically generating optimal robot trajectories satisfying high level mission specifications. The motion of the robot in the environment is modeled as a general transition system, enhanced with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-07-16 Stephen L. Smith , Jana Tumova , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus