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We address multi-robot motion planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications with kinodynamic constraints. Exact approaches face scalability bottlenecks and limited adaptability, while conventional sampling-based methods require…

In this paper, we present an optimization based method for path planning of a mobile robot subject to time bounded temporal constraints, in a dynamic environment. Temporal logic (TL) can address very complex task specification such as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

Rapidly Exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithms, notably used for nonholonomic vehicle navigation in complex environments, are often not thoroughly evaluated for their specific challenges. This paper presents a first such comparison study of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Trym Tengesdal , Tom Arne Pedersen , Tor Arne Johansen

In this paper, we present a new algorithm that extends RRT* and RT-RRT* for online path planning in complex, dynamic environments. Sampling-based approaches often perform poorly in environments with narrow passages, a feature common to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Daniel Armstrong , André Jonasson

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) has gained popularity in recent years as a specification language for cyber-physical systems, especially in robotics. Beyond being expressive and easy to understand, STL is appealing because the synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

This article presents MAPS$^2$ : a distributed algorithm that allows multi-robot systems to deliver coupled tasks expressed as Signal Temporal Logic (STL) constraints. Classical control theoretical tools addressing STL constraints either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mayank Sewlia , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Seamlessly integrating rules in Learning-from-Demonstrations (LfD) policies is a critical requirement to enable the real-world deployment of AI agents. Recently, Signal Temporal Logic (STL) has been shown to be an effective language for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jasmine Jerry Aloor , Jay Patrikar , Parv Kapoor , Jean Oh , Sebastian Scherer

Learning to solve complex tasks with signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is crucial to many real-world applications. However, most previous works only consider fixed or parametrized STL specifications due to the lack of a diverse STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

Sampling-based planning algorithms like Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) are versatile in solving path planning problems. RRT* offers asymptotic optimality but requires growing the tree uniformly over the free space, which leaves room…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Zhe Huang , Hongyu Chen , John Pohovey , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

In this paper we propose a new family of RRT based algorithms, named RRT+ , that are able to find faster solutions in high-dimensional configuration spaces compared to other existing RRT variants by finding paths in lower dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Marios Xanthidis , Ioannis Rekleitis , Jason M. O'Kane

The urban environment is amongst the most difficult domains for autonomous vehicles. The vehicle must be able to plan a safe route on challenging road layouts, in the presence of various dynamic traffic participants such as vehicles,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Robin Smit , Chris van der Ploeg , Arjan Teerhuis , Emilia Silvas

This paper proposes a 2-D autonomous exploration and mapping framework for LiDAR-based SLAM mobile robots, designed to address the major challenges on low-cost platforms, including process instability, map drift, and increased risks of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Muhua Zhang , Lei Ma , Ying Wu , Kai Shen , Yongkui Sun , Henry Leung

The efficiency of sampling-based motion planning brings wide application in autonomous mobile robots. The conventional rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm and its variants have gained significant successes, but there are still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ying Zhang , Heyong Wang , Maoliang Yin , Jiankun Wang , Changchun Hua

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers a concise yet expressive framework for specifying and reasoning about spatio-temporal behaviors of robotic systems. Attractively, STL admits the notion of robustness, the degree to which an input signal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Parv Kapoor , Kazuki Mizuta , Eunsuk Kang , Karen Leung

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful language for specifying temporally structured robotic tasks. Planning executable trajectories under STL constraints remains difficult when system dynamics and environment structure are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

RRT* is an efficient sampling-based motion planning algorithm. However, without taking advantages of accessible environment information, sampling-based algorithms usually result in sampling failures, generate useless nodes, and/or fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenxi Feng , Haochen Wu

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

There are spatio-temporal rules that dictate how robots should operate in complex environments, e.g., road rules govern how (self-driving) vehicles should behave on the road. However, seamlessly incorporating such rules into a robot control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Karen Leung , Marco Pavone

Motion planning under differential constraints is a classic problem in robotics. To date, the state of the art is represented by sampling-based techniques, with the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree algorithm as a leading example. Yet, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Edward Schmerling , Lucas Janson , Marco Pavone