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We present a novel approach to path planning for robotic manipulators, in which paths are produced via iterative optimisation in the latent space of a generative model of robot poses. Constraints are incorporated through the use of…

Local planning for a differential wheeled robot is designed to generate kinodynamic feasible actions that guide the robot to a goal position along the navigation path while avoiding obstacles. Reactive, predictive, and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqiang Jian , Songyi Zhang , Lingfeng Sun , Wei Zhan , Nanning Zheng , Masayoshi Tomizuka

This paper presents a triple optimization algorithm of two-dimensional space, driving path and driving speed, and iterates in the time dimension to obtain the local optimal solution of path and speed in the optimal driving area. Design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Yinyang , Wang Chanchan

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used for robot motion planning with complex kinodynamic constraints in high-dimensional spaces, yet they struggle to achieve \emph{real-time} performance due to their serial computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nicolas Perrault , Qi Heng Ho , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper, we propose a lightweight yet effective Topology Guided Kinodynamic planner (TGK-Planner) for quadrotor aggressive flights with limited onboard computing resources. The proposed system follows the traditional hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hongkai Ye , Xin Zhou , Zhepei Wang , Chao Xu , Jian Chu , Fei Gao

Motion planning under dynamics constraints, i.e, kinodynamic planning, enables safe robot operation by generating dynamically feasible trajectories that the robot can accurately track. For high-DOF robots such as manipulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Thai Duong , Clayton W. Ramsey , Zachary Kingston , Wil Thomason , Lydia E. Kavraki

Sampling-based motion planners offer a practical and scalable approach to kinodynamic motion planning, notably for high-dimensional, underactuated, or non-holonomic systems. However, these planners are typically used offline, requiring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Seyedali Golestaneh , Zhuoyun Zhong , Donghyung Lee , Constantinos Chamzas

Kinodynamic planning for car-like vehicles on uneven terrain requires simultaneously optimizing competing objectives such as path efficiency and pose stability. This work presents an adaptive epsilon-constraint method integrated into a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Otobong Jerome , Geesara Kalathunga , Tiago Nascimento

Motion planning under differential constraints, kinodynamic motion planning, is one of the canonical problems in robotics. Currently, state-of-the-art methods evolve around kinodynamic variants of popular sampling-based algorithms, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Oktay Arslan , Karl Berntorp , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Learning-based methods have shown promising performance for accelerating motion planning, but mostly in the setting of static environments. For the more challenging problem of planning in dynamic environments, such as multi-arm assembly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ruipeng Zhang , Chenning Yu , Jingkai Chen , Chuchu Fan , Sicun Gao

We tackle the challenging problem of multi-agent cooperative motion planning for complex tasks described using signal temporal logic (STL), where robots can have nonlinear and nonholonomic dynamics. Existing methods in multi-agent motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Dawei Sun , Jingkai Chen , Sayan Mitra , Chuchu Fan

Mobile robot motion planners rely on theoretical models to predict how the robot will move through the world. However, when deployed on a physical robot, these models are subject to errors due to real-world physics and uncertainty in how…

We present a scalable and effective multi-agent safe motion planner that enables a group of agents to move to their desired locations while avoiding collisions with obstacles and other agents, with the presence of rich obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Jingkai Chen , Jiaoyang Li , Chuchu Fan , Brian Williams

In this work, we present a workspace-based planning framework, which though using redundant workspace key-points to represent robot states, can take advantage of the interpretable geometric information to derive good quality collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Weifu Wang , Ping Li

Autonomous navigation has played an increasingly significant role in quadruped robot system. However, most existing works on quadruped robots navigation using traditional search-based or sample-based methods do not consider the kinodynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Pei Wang , Xiaoyu Zhou , Qingteng Zhao , Jun Wu , Qiuguo Zhu

Kinodynamic motion planners allow robots to perform complex manipulation tasks under dynamics constraints or with black-box models. However, they struggle to find high-quality solutions, especially when a steering function is unavailable.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Marco Faroni , Dmitry Berenson

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Navigating rigid body objects through crowded environments can be challenging, especially when narrow passages are presented. Existing sampling-based planners and optimization-based methods like mixed integer linear programming (MILP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Mingxin Yu , Chuchu Fan

We propose a novel method for planning shortest length piecewise-linear motions through complex environments punctured with static, moving, or even morphing obstacles. Using a moment optimization approach, we formulate a hierarchy of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Bachir El Khadir , Jean Bernard Lasserre , Vikas Sindhwani

Path planning for multiple robots is well studied in the AI and robotics communities. For a given discretized environment, robots need to find collision-free paths to a set of specified goal locations. Robots can be fully anonymous,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Wolfgang Hönig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Liron Cohen , Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian