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Industrial human-robot collaboration requires motion planning that is collision-free, responsive, and ergonomically safe to reduce fatigue and musculoskeletal risk. We propose the Configuration Space Ergonomic Field (CSEF), a continuous and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Chenzui Li , Yiming Chen , Xi Wu , Tao Teng , Sylvain Calinon , Darwin Caldwell , Fei Chen

We introduce Neural Riemannian Motion Fields (NRMF), a novel 3D generative human motion prior that enables robust, temporally consistent, and physically plausible 3D motion recovery. Unlike existing VAE or diffusion-based methods, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zhengdi Yu , Simone Foti , Linguang Zhang , Amy Zhao , Cem Keskin , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Tolga Birdal

We propose a Geometry-aware Policy Imitation (GPI) approach that rethinks imitation learning by treating demonstrations as geometric curves rather than collections of state-action samples. From these curves, GPI derives distance fields that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yiming Li , Nael Darwiche , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sichao Liu , Yilun Du , Auke Ijspeert , Sylvain Calinon

This paper focuses on a critical challenge in robotics: translating text-driven human motions into executable actions for humanoid robots, enabling efficient and cost-effective learning of new behaviors. While existing text-to-motion…

NeRFs have achieved incredible success in novel view synthesis. However, the accuracy of the implicit geometry is unsatisfactory because the passive static environmental illumination has low spatial frequency and cannot provide enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jianyu Tao , Changping Hu , Edward Yang , Jing Xu , Rui Chen

Many modern robotics applications require robots to function autonomously in dynamic environments including other decision making agents, such as people or other robots. This calls for fast and scalable interactive motion planning. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-27 A. Bordallo , F. Previtali , N. Nardelli , S. Ramamoorthy

Geospatial technologies are becoming increasingly essential in our world for a wide range of applications, including agriculture, urban planning, and disaster response. To help improve the applicability and performance of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Matias Mendieta , Boran Han , Xingjian Shi , Yi Zhu , Chen Chen

Motion planning is a key tool that allows robots to navigate through an environment without collisions. The problem of robot motion planning has been studied in great detail over the last several decades, with researchers initially focusing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Luka Petrović

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) requires collision-free trajectories for multiple agents on a shared graph, often with the objective of minimizing the sum-of-costs (SOC). Many optimal and bounded-suboptimal solvers rely on time-expanded…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fernando Salanova , Eduardo Montijano , Cristian Mahulea

We discuss various approaches to modeling the interatomic interactions for molecular dynamics with special focus on the geometrical structural properties. The type of interactions considered are so called reactive force fields, i.e.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-19 Ladislav Kocbach , Suhail Lubbad

Continuum robots with floating bases demonstrate exceptional operational capabilities in confined spaces, such as those encountered in medical surgeries and equipment maintenance. However, developing low-cost solutions for their motion and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Congjun Ma , Quan Xiao , Liangcheng Liu , Xingxing You , Songyi Dian

In many robot motion planning problems, task objectives and physical constraints induce non-Euclidean geometry on the configuration space, yet many planners operate using Euclidean distances that ignore this structure. We address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Phone Thiha Kyaw , Jonathan Kelly

Several complex physical systems are governed by multi-scale partial differential equations (PDEs) that exhibit both smooth low-frequency components and localized high-frequency structures. Existing physics-informed neural network (PINN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhenzhen Huang , Haoyu Bian , Jiaquan Zhang , Yibei Liu , Kuien Liu , Caiyan Qin , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Chaoning Zhang

The motion planning problem of generating dynamically feasible, collision-free trajectories in non-convex environments is a fundamental challenge for autonomous systems. Decomposing the problem into path planning and path tracking improves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Shu Zhang , James Y. Z. Liu , Dominic Liao-McPherson

We integrate sampling-based planning techniques with funnel-based feedback control to develop KDF, a new framework for solving the kinodynamic motion-planning problem via funnel control. The considered systems evolve subject to complex,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Lydia E. Kavraki

With the advancement of robotics, machine learning, and machine perception, increasingly more robots will enter human environments to assist with daily tasks. However, dynamically-changing human environments requires reactive motion plans.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Akshara Rai , Giovanni Sutanto , Stefan Schaal , Franziska Meier

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a reactive planning system for bipedal robots on unexplored, challenging terrains. The system consists of a low-frequency planning thread (5 Hz) to find an asymptotically optimal path and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Jessy W. Grizzle

Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging. This raises a central question: when does a learned representation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hoang Nguyen , Xiaohao Xu , Xiaonan Huang

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms can generate plans that combine logic and motion aspects for robots. However, these plans are sensitive to interference and control errors. To make TAMP more applicable in real-world, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tao Lin , Chengfei Yue , Ziran Liu , Xibin Cao

Navigation of UAVs in unknown environments with obstacles is essential for applications in disaster response and infrastructure monitoring. However, existing obstacle avoidance algorithms, such as Artificial Potential Field (APF) are unable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shahid Mohammad Mulla , Aryan Kanakapudi , Lakshmi Narasimhan , Anuj Tiwari