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This paper investigates a novel active-sensing-based obstacle avoidance paradigm for flying robots in dynamic environments. Instead of fusing multiple sensors to enlarge the field of view (FOV), we introduce an alternative approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gang Chen , Wei Dong , Xinjun Sheng , Xiangyang Zhu , Han Ding

Estimating collision probabilities between robots and environmental obstacles or other moving agents is crucial to ensure safety during path planning. This is an important building block of modern planning algorithms in many application…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Felix Herrmann , Sebastian Zach , Jacopo Banfi , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Davide Tateo

Sampling-based path planning is a widely used method in robotics, particularly in high-dimensional state space. Among the whole process of the path planning, collision detection is the most time-consuming operation. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xingrong Diao , Wenzheng Chi , Jiankun Wang

Robot assistants are emerging as high-tech solutions to support people in everyday life. Following and assisting the user in the domestic environment requires flexible mobility to safely move in cluttered spaces. We introduce a new approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Andrea Eirale , Mauro Martini , Marcello Chiaberge

In this paper, we developed a new navigation system, which detects obstacles in a sliding window with an adaptive threshold clustering algorithm, classifies the detected obstacles with a decision tree, heuristically predicts potential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Meng-Yuan Chen , Yong-Jian Wu , Hongmei He

Robot navigation in dynamic, crowded environments poses a significant challenge due to the inherent uncertainties in the obstacle model. In this work, we propose a risk-adaptive approach based on the Conditional Value-at-Risk Barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xinyi Wang , Taekyung Kim , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos , Dimitra Panagou

Navigating robots safely and efficiently in crowded and complex environments remains a significant challenge. However, due to the dynamic and intricate nature of these settings, planning efficient and collision-free paths for robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhuanglei Wen , Mingze Dong , Xiai Chen

Autonomous visual navigation is an essential element in robot autonomy. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising policy training paradigm. However existing RL methods suffer from high sample complexity, poor sim-to-real transfer, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Qianzhong Chen , Jiankai Sun , Naixiang Gao , JunEn Low , Timothy Chen , Mac Schwager

Safe path planning is a crucial component in autonomous robotics. The many approaches to find a collision free path can be categorically divided into trajectory optimisers and sampling-based methods. When planning using occupancy maps, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gilad Francis , Lionel Ott , Fabio Ramos

Collision-free mobile robot navigation is an important problem for many robotics applications, especially in cluttered environments. In such environments, obstacles can be static or dynamic. Dynamic obstacles can additionally be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Baskın Şenbaşlar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

This paper proposes an integrated approach for the safe and efficient control of mobile robots in dynamic and uncertain environments. The approach consists of two key steps: one-shot multimodal motion prediction to anticipate motions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ze Zhang , Georg Hess , Junjie Hu , Emmanuel Dean , Lennart Svensson , Knut Åkesson

In this thesis a probabilistic framework is developed and proposed for Dynamic Object Recognition in 3D Environments. A software package is developed using C++ and Python in ROS that performs the detection and tracking task. Furthermore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Pouria Mehrabi

In the context of autonomous vehicles, one of the most crucial tasks is to estimate the risk of the undertaken action. While navigating in complex urban environments, the Bayesian occupancy grid is one of the most popular types of maps,…

Recently, many reactive trajectory planning approaches were suggested in the literature because of their inherent immediate adaption in the ever more demanding cluttered and unpredictable environments of robotic systems. However, typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Marvin Becker , Johannes Köhler , Sami Haddadin , Matthias A. Müller

Anticipating the motion of other road users is crucial for automated driving systems (ADS), as it enables safe and informed downstream decision-making and motion planning. Unfortunately, contemporary learning-based approaches for motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 MReza Alipour Sormoli , Amir Samadi , Sajjad Mozaffari , Konstantinos Koufos , Mehrdad Dianati , Roger Woodman

This paper presents a learning-based extension to a Circular Field (CF)-based motion planner for efficient, collision-free trajectory generation in cluttered environments. The proposed approach overcomes the limitations of hand-tuned force…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mateus Salomão , Tianyü Ren , Alexander König

This paper describes continuous-space methodologies to estimate the collision probability, Euclidean distance and gradient between an ellipsoidal robot model and an environment surface modeled as a set of Gaussian distributions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib

Vision-based autonomous driving has gained much attention due to its low costs and excellent performance. Compared with dense BEV (Bird's Eye View) or sparse query models, Gaussian-centric method is a comprehensive yet sparse representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyao Zhu , Ying Xue , Haiming Zhang , Guangfeng Jiang , Wending Zhou , Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Yingjie Cai , Bingbing Liu , Zhen Li , Shaojie Shen

Domain shifts are critical issues that harm the performance of machine learning. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) mitigates this issue but suffers when the domain shifts are steep and drastic. Gradual Domain Adaptation (GDA) alleviates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zixi Wang , Xiangxu Zhao , Tonglan Xie , Mengmeng Jing , Lin Zuo

This paper presents a robust computationally efficient real-time collision avoidance algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), namely Memory-based Wall Following-Artificial Potential Field (MWF-APF) method. The new algorithm switches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Han Wang , Muqing Cao , Hao Jiang , Lihua Xie