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This paper explores the Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO) problem and proposes joint path and push planning: which path to take and in what direction the obstacles should be pushed at, given a start and goal position. We present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Victor Emeli , Akansel Cosgun

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

This paper proposes a formal robot motion risk reasoning framework and develops a risk-aware path planner that minimizes the proposed risk. While robots locomoting in unstructured or confined environments face a variety of risk, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Xuesu Xiao , Jan Dufek , Robin Murphy

Indoor motion planning focuses on solving the problem of navigating an agent through a cluttered environment. To date, quite a lot of work has been done in this field, but these methods often fail to find the optimal balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shivam Sood , Jaskaran Singh Sodhi , Parv Maheshwari , Karan Uppal , Debashish Chakravarty

This paper presents a method for local motion planning in unstructured environments with static and moving obstacles, such as humans. Given a reference path and speed, our optimization-based receding-horizon approach computes a local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Bruno Brito , Boaz Floor , Laura Ferranti , Javier Alonso-Mora

One of the fundamental tasks of autonomous driving is safe trajectory planning, the task of deciding where the vehicle needs to drive, while avoiding obstacles, obeying safety rules, and respecting the fundamental limits of road. Real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Milin Patel , Marzana Khatun , Rolf Jung , Michael Glaß

Path planning has long been one of the major research areas in robotics, with PRM and RRT being two of the most effective classes of planners. Though generally very efficient, these sampling-based planners can become computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sipu Ruan , Karen L. Poblete , Hongtao Wu , Qianli Ma , Gregory S. Chirikjian

It is a challenging task for ground robots to autonomously navigate in harsh environments due to the presence of non-trivial obstacles and uneven terrain. This requires trajectory planning that balances safety and efficiency. The primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Zhang , Yinchuan Wang , Wangtao Lu , Pengyu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yue Wang , Chaoqun Wang

Motion planning is a key element of robotics since it empowers a robot to navigate autonomously. Particle Swarm Optimization is a simple, yet a very powerful optimization technique which has been effectively used in many complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-25 M. Shahab Alam , M. Usman Rafique , M. Umer Khan

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) in continuous spaces is a challenging problem with significant practical importance. One promising approach is to first construct graphs approximating the spaces, called roadmaps, and then apply multi-agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Keisuke Okumura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura , Asako Kanezaki

A major challenge with off-road autonomous navigation is the lack of maps or road markings that can be used to plan a path for autonomous robots. Classical path planning methods mostly assume a perfectly known environment without accounting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Charles Moore , Shaswata Mitra , Nisha Pillai , Marc Moore , Sudip Mittal , Cindy Bethel , Jingdao Chen

For autonomous quadruped robot navigation in various complex environments, a typical SOTA system is composed of four main modules -- mapper, global planner, local planner, and command-tracking controller -- in a hierarchical manner. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yunho Kim , Chanyoung Kim , Jemin Hwangbo

Ensuring safety and motion consistency for robot navigation in occluded, obstacle-dense environments is a critical challenge. In this context, this study presents an occlusion-aware Consistent Model Predictive Control (CMPC) strategy. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Minzhe Zheng , Lei Zheng , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing environments due to their efficiency in doing repetitive tasks such as assembly or welding. A common problem for these applications is to reach a destination without colliding with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Teham Bhuiyan , Linh Kästner , Yifan Hu , Benno Kutschank , Jens Lambrecht

Most existing methods for motion planning of mobile robots involve generating collision-free trajectories. However, these methods focusing solely on contact avoidance may limit the robots' locomotion and can not be applied to tasks where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Haokun Wang , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator systems (AUVMS) is a new tool for ocean exploration, the AUVMS path planning problem is addressed in this paper. AUVMS is a high dimension system with a large difference in inertia distribution,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoxu Cao , Linyi Gu , JunChen Mu , Qian Zhang , Qi Song , Chunxiao Liu , Cong Qiu

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

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

This paper presents a two-step algorithm for online trajectory planning in indoor environments with unknown obstacles. In the first step, sampling-based path planning techniques such as the optimal Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT*)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Zimmermann , Minh Nhat Vu , Florian Beck , Anh Nguyen , Andreas Kugi

We present a planning framework designed for humanoid navigation over challenging terrain. This framework is designed to plan a traversable, smooth, and collision-free path using a 2.5D height map. The planner is comprised of two stages.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Stephen McCrory , Bhavyansh Mishra , Jaehoon An , Robert Griffin , Jerry Pratt , Hakki Erhan Sevil