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This paper examines the question of finding feasible points to discrete-time optimal control problems. The optimization problem of finding a feasible trajectory is transcribed to an unconstrained optimal control problem. An efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 David Kiessling , Katrin Baumgärtner , Jonathan Frey , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers , Moritz Diehl

Trajectory prediction and generation are crucial for autonomous robots in dynamic environments. While prior research has typically focused on either prediction or generation, our approach unifies these tasks to provide a versatile framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sean Ye , Matthew Gombolay

This paper presents an integrated approach that combines trajectory optimization and Artificial Potential Field (APF) method for real-time optimal Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) trajectory planning and dynamic collision avoidance. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao , Hamed Habibi , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Holger Voos

Real-time kinodynamic trajectory planning in dynamic environments is critical yet challenging for autonomous driving. In this letter, we propose an efficient trajectory planning system for autonomous driving in complex dynamic scenarios…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Cheng Jie , Chen Yingbing , Zhang Qingwen , Gan Lu , Liu Ming

We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems. Starting from a model trained on low-fidelity or observational data, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jan Tauberschmidt , Sophie Fellenz , Sebastian J. Vollmer , Andrew B. Duncan

Generating overtaking trajectories in autonomous racing is a challenging task, as the trajectory must satisfy the vehicle's dynamics and ensure safety and real-time performance running on resource-constrained hardware. This work proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Cheng Hu , Jihao Huang , Wule Mao , Yonghao Fu , Xuemin Chi , Haotong Qin , Nicolas Baumann , Zhitao Liu , Michele Magno , Lei Xie

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

Robots are widely used in industry due to their efficiency and high accuracy in performance. One of the most intriguing issues in manufacturing stage of production line is to minimize significantly high percentage of energy consumed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Sourya Dipta Das , Victor Bain , Pratyusha Rakshit

Reconstructing PDE solutions from sparse observations is a core challenge in scientific computing. We present FM4PDE, a flow-matching generative framework that learns the joint distribution of PDE coefficients (or initial states) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xifeng Zhang , Jin Zhao

This paper considers a trajectory planning problem for a robot navigating complex terrains, which arises in applications ranging from autonomous mining vehicles to planetary rovers. The problem seeks to find a low-cost dynamically feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilin Cai , Zhongqiang Ren

In this paper, we extend a famous motion planning approach GPMP2 to multi-robot cases, yielding a novel centralized trajectory generation method for the multi-robot formation. A sparse Gaussian Process model is employed to represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shuang Guo , Bo Liu , Shen Zhang , Jifeng Guo , Changhong Wang

Gaussian process (GP) regression provides a strategy for accelerating saddle point searches on high-dimensional energy surfaces by reducing the number of times the energy and its derivatives with respect to atomic coordinates need to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Rohit Goswami , Hannes Jónsson

To operate with limited sensor horizons in unpredictable environments, autonomous robots use a receding-horizon strategy to plan trajectories, wherein they execute a short plan while creating the next plan. However, creating safe,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Shreyas Kousik , Sean Vaskov , Fan Bu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan

Rapidly generating an optimal chasing motion of a drone to follow a dynamic target among obstacles is challenging due to numerical issues rising from multiple conflicting objectives and non-convex constraints. This study proposes to resolve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Boseong Felipe Jeon , Changhyeon Kim , Hojoon Shin , H. Jin Kim

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

Predicting effective thermal conductivity by solving a Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a high-resolution Representative Volume Element (RVE) is a computationally intensive task. In this paper, we tackle the task by proposing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Changqing Ye , Shubin Fu , Eric T. Chung

When a mobile robot plans its path in an environment with obstacles using Artificial Potential Field (APF) strategy, it may fall into the local minimum point and fail to reach the goal. Also, the derivatives of APF will explode close to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Bo Peng , Lingke Zhang , Rong Xiong

With the development of robotics, ground robots are no longer limited to planar motion. Passive height variation due to complex terrain and active height control provided by special structures on robots require a more general navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Jingping Wang , Long Xu , Haoran Fu , Zehui Meng , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao , Ximin Lyu , Fei Gao

Fast, autonomous flight in unstructured, cluttered environments such as forests is challenging because it requires the robot to compute new plans in realtime on a computationally-constrained platform. In this paper, we enable this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , Xu Liu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

Guidance commands of flight vehicles are a series of data sets with fixed time intervals, thus guidance design constitutes a sequential decision problem and satisfies the basic conditions for using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xiao Hu , Tianshu Wang , Min Gong , Shaoshi Yang