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The urban environment is amongst the most difficult domains for autonomous vehicles. The vehicle must be able to plan a safe route on challenging road layouts, in the presence of various dynamic traffic participants such as vehicles,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Robin Smit , Chris van der Ploeg , Arjan Teerhuis , Emilia Silvas

Trajectory planning is crucial for the safe driving of autonomous vehicles in highway traffic flow. Currently, some advanced trajectory planning methods utilize spatio-temporal voxels to construct feasible regions and then convert…

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

This paper offers a formal framework for the rare collision risk estimation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) with multi-agent situation awareness, affected by different sources of noise in a complex dynamic environment. In our proposed setting,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Mahdieh Zaker , Henk A. P. Blom , Sadegh Soudjani , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper investigates the boresight alignment control problem under safety constraints and performance requirements, involving pointing-forbidden constraint, attitude angular velocity limitation, and pointing accuracy requirement.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Jiakun Lei , Tao Meng , Kun Wang , Weijia Wang , Shujian Sun , Lei Wang

This paper introduces a framework for an indoor autonomous mobility system that can perform patient transfers and materials handling. Unlike traditional systems that rely on onboard perception sensors, the proposed approach leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yufeng Yang , Minghao Ning , Shucheng Huang , Ehsan Hashemi , Amir Khajepour

In the path planning problem of autonomous application, the existing studies separately consider the path planning and trajectory tracking control of the autonomous vehicle and few of them have integrated the trajectory planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Chao Huang , Boyuan Li , Masako Kishida

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in dynamic wind fields must generate safe and energy-efficient trajectories under physical and environmental constraints. Traditional planners, such as A* and kinodynamic RRT*, often yield…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shuning Zhang

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,…

The integration of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) into existing human-driven traffic systems poses considerable challenges, especially within environments where human and machine interactions are frequent and complex, such as at unsignalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Jiaqi Liu , Xiao Qi , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

Planning safe trajectories in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is a complex problem to solve in real-time. The main challenge to solve this problem arises from the various conditions and constraints imposed by road geometry, semantics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mehdi Testouri , Gamal Elghazaly , Raphael Frank

Robotic manipulators operating in dynamic and uncertain environments require efficient motion planning to navigate obstacles while maintaining smooth trajectories. Velocity Potential Field (VPF) planners offer real-time adaptability but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ho Minh Quang Ngo , Dac Dang Khoa Nguyen , Dinh Tung Le , Gavin Paul

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are essential in various industries for their efficiency and adaptability. However, planning trajectories for AGVs in obstacle-dense, unstructured environments presents significant challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shaoqiang Liang , Songyuan Fa , Yiqun Li

This paper presents the development of a new collaborative road profile estimation and active suspension control framework in connected vehicles, where participating vehicles iteratively refine the road profile estimation and enhance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Harsh Modi , Mohammad R Hajidavalloo , Zhaojian Li , Minghui Zheng

Gradient-based trajectory optimization with B-spline curves is widely used for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to its fast convergence and continuous trajectory generation. However, the application of B-spline curves for path-velocity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jongseo Choi , Hyuntai Chin , Hyunwoo Park , Daehyeok Kwon , Doosan Baek , Sang-Hyun Lee

Autonomous drone swarms are a burgeoning technology with significant applications in the field of mapping, inspection, transportation and monitoring. To complete a task, each drone has to accomplish a sub-goal within the context of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Rohith Gandhi Ganesan , Samantha Kappagoda , Giuseppe Loianno , David K. A. Mordecai

In this paper, a novel closed-loop control framework for autonomous obstacle avoidance on a curve road is presented. The proposed framework provides two main functionalities; (i) collision free trajectory planning using MPC and (ii) a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Shayan Taherian , Shilp Dixit , Umberto Montanaro , Saber Fallah

Recent advances in autonomous vehicle (AV) behavior planning have shown impressive social interaction capabilities when interacting with other road users. However, achieving human-like prediction and decision-making in interactions with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Meiting Dang , Yanping Wu , Yafei Wang , Dezong Zhao , David Flynn , Chongfeng Wei

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti

Ice conditions often require ships to reduce speed and deviate from their main course to avoid damage to the ship. In addition, broken ice fields are becoming the dominant ice conditions encountered in the Arctic, where the effects of…

Safe physical interaction is critical for deploying robotic manipulators in human-robot interaction and contact-rich tasks, where uncertainty, external forces, and actuator limitations can compromise both performance and safety. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Faisal Lawan , Xiaoran Han , Joaquin Carrasco , Barry Lennox , Xiaoxiao Cheng