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This paper presents a novel planning method that achieves navigation of multi-robot formations in cluttered environments, while maintaining the formation throughout the robots motion. The method utilises a decentralised approach to find…

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Long time-duration low-thrust nonlinear optimal spacecraft trajectory global search is a computationally and time expensive problem characterized by clustering patterns in locally optimal solutions. During preliminary mission design,…

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This work presents a multiscale framework to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems in the context of robot motion planning and control in a complex environment. In order to handle complications resulting from a large decision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi

In this paper, we present a receding-horizon, sampling-based planner capable of reasoning over multimodal policy distributions. By using the cross-entropy method to optimize a multimodal policy under a common cost function, our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mark Gonzales , Ethan Oh , Joseph Moore

Current robotic pick-and-place policies typically require consistent gripper configurations across training and inference. This constraint imposes high retraining or fine-tuning costs, especially for imitation learning-based approaches,…

Robotic manipulation policies are commonly initialized through imitation learning, but their performance is limited by the scarcity and narrow coverage of expert data. Reinforcement learning can refine polices to alleviate this limitation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhennan Jiang , Kai Liu , Yuxin Qin , Shuai Tian , Yupeng Zheng , Mingcai Zhou , Chao Yu , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

Building effective imitation learning methods that enable robots to learn from limited data and still generalize across diverse real-world environments is a long-standing problem in robot learning. We propose Equibot, a robust,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jingyun Yang , Zi-ang Cao , Congyue Deng , Rika Antonova , Shuran Song , Jeannette Bohg

We introduce SceneDiffuser, a conditional generative model for 3D scene understanding. SceneDiffuser provides a unified model for solving scene-conditioned generation, optimization, and planning. In contrast to prior works, SceneDiffuser is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Huang , Zan Wang , Puhao Li , Baoxiong Jia , Tengyu Liu , Yixin Zhu , Wei Liang , Song-Chun Zhu

We present MotionDiffuser, a diffusion based representation for the joint distribution of future trajectories over multiple agents. Such representation has several key advantages: first, our model learns a highly multimodal distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chiyu Max Jiang , Andre Cornman , Cheolho Park , Ben Sapp , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

Diffusion strategies have advanced visual motor control by progressively denoising high-dimensional action sequences, providing a promising method for robot manipulation. However, as task complexity increases, the success rate of existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Weize Xie , Yi Ding , Ying He , Leilei Wang , Binwen Bai , Zheyi Zhao , Chenyang Wang , F. Richard Yu

Equipping autonomous robots with the ability to navigate safely and efficiently around humans is a crucial step toward achieving trusted robot autonomy. However, generating robot plans while ensuring safety in dynamic multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Kazuki Mizuta , Karen Leung

Diffusion models, which leverage stochastic processes to capture complex data distributions effectively, have shown their performance as generative models, achieving notable success in image-related tasks through iterative denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Toshihide Ubukata , Jialong Li , Kenji Tei

This paper investigates the application of Diffusion Policy in non-stationary, vision-based RL settings, specifically targeting environments where task dynamics and objectives evolve over time. Our work is grounded in practical challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gunbir Singh Baveja

Fabrication uncertainty arising from tolerance accumulation, material imperfection, and positioning errors remains a critical barrier to automated robotic assembly in construction, particularly for contact-rich manipulation tasks governed…

A novel decentralised trajectory generation algorithm for Multi Agent systems is presented. Multi-robot systems have the capacity to transform lives in a variety of fields. But, trajectory generation for multi-robot systems is still in its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Vijay Arvindh , Sivanathan K

This paper focuses on the emerging paradigm shift of collision-inclusive motion planning and control for impact-resilient mobile robots, and develops a unified hierarchical framework for navigation in unknown and partially-observable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhouyu Lu , Zhichao Liu , Merrick Campbell , Konstantinos Karydis

Animals learn to adapt speed of their movements to their capabilities and the environment they observe. Mobile robots should also demonstrate this ability to trade-off aggressiveness and safety for efficiently accomplishing tasks. The aim…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Guangyu Zhao , Tianyue Wu , Yeke Chen , Fei Gao

Learning-based 3D Scanning plays a crucial role in enabling efficient and accurate scanning of target objects. However, recent reinforcement learning-based methods often require large-scale training data and still struggle to generalize to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Itsuki Hirako , Ryo Hakoda , Yubin Liu , Matthew Hwang , Yoshihiro Sato , Takeshi Oishi

Learning from expert demonstrations is a promising approach for training robotic manipulation policies from limited data. However, imitation learning algorithms require a number of design choices ranging from the input modality, training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Eugenio Chisari , Nick Heppert , Max Argus , Tim Welschehold , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Multi robot systems have the potential to be utilized in a variety of applications. In most of the previous works, the trajectory generation for multi robot systems is implemented in known environments. To overcome that we present an online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Vijay Arvindh , Govind Aadithya R , Shravan Krishnan , Sivanathan K