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Motion planning is a crucial aspect of robot autonomy as it involves identifying a feasible motion path to a destination while taking into consideration various constraints, such as input, safety, and performance constraints, without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Dengyu Zhang , Guobin Zhu , Qingrui Zhang

Motion planning in an autonomous agent is responsible for providing smooth, safe and efficient navigation. Many solutions for dealing this problem have been offered, one of which is, Artificial Potential Fields (APF). APF is a simple and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Javad Amiryan , Mansour Jamzad

An autonomous navigation with proven collision avoidance in unknown and dynamic environments is still a challenge, particularly when there are moving obstacles. A popular approach to collision avoidance in the face of moving obstacles is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Samuel Silva , Grigoriy Dubrovskiy , Hai Lin

Motion planning is challenging for multiple robots in cluttered environments without communication, especially in view of real-time efficiency, motion safety, distributed computation, and trajectory optimality, etc. In this paper, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Dengyu Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Bo Zhu , Qingrui Zhang

Robotic trajectory planning in dynamic and cluttered environments remains a critical challenge, particularly when striving for both time efficiency and motion smoothness under actuation constraints. Traditional path planner, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adeetya Uppal , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

This paper considers the integration of gap-based local navigation methods with artificial potential field (APF) methods to derive a local planning module for hierarchical navigation systems that has provable collision-free properties.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ruoyang Xu , Shiyu Feng , Patricio A. Vela

This paper extends the capabilities of the harmonic potential field (HPF) approach to planning. The extension covers the situation where the workspace of a robot cannot be segmented into geometrical subregions where each region has an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Ahmad A. Masoud

In this paper a global reactive motion planning framework for robotic manipulators in complex dynamic environments is presented. In particular, the circular field predictions (CFP) planner from Becker et al. (2021) is extended to ensure…

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

Accurate and interpretable motion planning is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) navigating complex and uncertain environments. While recent end-to-end occupancy prediction methods have improved environmental understanding, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shuqi Shen , Junjie Yang , Hongliang Lu , Hui Zhong , Qiming Zhang , Xinhu Zheng

This paper proposes a framework for 3D obstacle avoidance in the presence of partial observability of environment obstacles. The method focuses on the utility of the Artificial Potential Function (APF) controller in a practical setting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shakeeb Ahmad , Zachary N. Sunberg , J. Sean Humbert

Autonomous ground vehicle systems have found extensive potential and practical applications in the modern world. The development of an autonomous ground vehicle poses a significant challenge, particularly in identifying the best path plan,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Aziz ur Rehman , Ahsan Tanveer , M. Touseef Ashraf , Umer Khan

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

Generalist robot policies must operate safely and reliably in everyday human environments such as homes, offices, and warehouses, where people and objects move unpredictably. We present Dynamic Neural Potential Field (NPField-GPT), a…

Underwater gliders (UGs) have emerged as highly effective unmanned vehicles for ocean exploration. However, their operation in dynamic and complex underwater environments necessitates robust path-planning strategies. Previous studies have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Hanzhi Yang , Nina Mahmoudian

Although recent efforts have extended Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) into LiDAR point cloud synthesis, the majority of existing works exhibit a strong dependence on precomputed poses. However, point cloud registration methods struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Weiyi Xue , Zehan Zheng , Fan Lu , Haiyun Wei , Guang Chen , Changjun Jiang

Deploying deep learning agents for autonomous navigation in unstructured environments faces critical challenges regarding safety, data scarcity, and limited computational resources. Traditional solvers often suffer from high latency, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ziqian Wang , Chenxi Fang , Zhen Zhang

This paper addresses the challenge of Neural Field (NeF) generalization, where models must efficiently adapt to new signals given only a few observations. To tackle this, we propose Geometric Neural Process Fields (G-NPF), a probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Wenzhe Yin , Zehao Xiao , Jiayi Shen , Yunlu Chen , Cees G. M. Snoek , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

Energy-based predictive world models provide a powerful approach for multi-step visual planning by reasoning over latent energy landscapes rather than generating pixels. However, existing approaches face two major challenges: (i) their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Zhang , Danning Li , Ian Reid , Richard Hartley

We tackle the challenges of decentralized multi-robot navigation in environments with nonconvex obstacles, where complete environmental knowledge is unavailable. While reactive methods like Artificial Potential Field (APF) offer simplicity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Joonkyung Kim , Sangjin Park , Wonjong Lee , Woojun Kim , Nakju Doh , Changjoo Nam
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