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Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

Generative models have shown great promise in generating 3D geometric systems, which is a fundamental problem in many natural science domains such as molecule and protein design. However, existing approaches only operate on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Jiaqi Han , Minkai Xu , Aaron Lou , Haotian Ye , Stefano Ermon

Generative diffusion models have shown empirical successes in point cloud resampling, generating a denser and more uniform distribution of points from sparse or noisy 3D point clouds by progressively refining noise into structure. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Wenqiang Xu , Wenrui Dai , Duoduo Xue , Ziyang Zheng , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

Motion planning in dynamic urban environments requires balancing immediate safety with long-term goals. While diffusion models effectively capture multi-modal decision-making, existing approaches treat trajectories as monolithic entities,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xiang Li , Bikun Wang , John Zhang , Jianjun Wang

We present a novel end-to-end diffusion-based trajectory generation method, DTG, for mapless global navigation in challenging outdoor scenarios with occlusions and unstructured off-road features like grass, buildings, bushes, etc. Given a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jing Liang , Amirreza Payandeh , Daeun Song , Xuesu Xiao , Dinesh Manocha

Optimal trajectory design is computationally expensive for nonlinear and high-dimensional dynamical systems. The challenge arises from the non-convex nature of the optimization problem with multiple local optima, which usually requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Anjian Li , Zihan Ding , Adji Bousso Dieng , Ryne Beeson

Air-land bimodal vehicles provide a promising solution for navigating complex environments by combining the flexibility of aerial locomotion with the energy efficiency of ground mobility. However, planning dynamically feasible, smooth,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Shaoting Liu , Wenshuai Yu , Bo Zhang , Shoubin Chen , Fei Ma , Zhou Liu , Qingquan Li

Spacecraft trajectory design is a global search problem, where previous work has revealed specific solution structures that can be captured with data-driven methods. This paper explores two global search problems in the circular restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jannik Graebner , Anjian Li , Amlan Sinha , Ryne Beeson

Path planning in complex environments is one of the key problems of artificial intelligence because it requires simultaneous understanding of the geometry of space and the global structure of the problem. In this paper, we explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Michał Wieczorek

Diffusion-based trajectory planners have demonstrated strong capability for modeling the multimodal nature of human driving behavior, but their reliance on iterative stochastic sampling poses critical challenges for real-time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruturaj Reddy , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Junn Yong Loo , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Ganesh Krishnasamy

Fast, autonomous flight in unstructured, cluttered environments such as forests is challenging because it requires the robot to compute new plans in realtime on a computationally-constrained platform. In this paper, we enable this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , Xu Liu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

Search-based planning with motion primitives is a powerful motion planning technique that can provide dynamic feasibility, optimality, and real-time computation times on size, weight, and power-constrained platforms in unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , James Paulos , Raymond Bjorkman , Vijay Kumar

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Generating realistic 3D point clouds is a fundamental problem in computer vision with applications in remote sensing, robotics, and digital object modeling. Existing generative approaches primarily capture geometry, and when semantics are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gunner Stone , Sushmita Sarker , Alireza Tavakkoli

Predicting the future can significantly improve the safety of intelligent vehicles, which is a key component in autonomous driving. 3D point clouds accurately model 3D information of surrounding environment and are crucial for intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Fan Lu , Guang Chen , Yinlong Liu , Zhijun Li , Sanqing Qu , Tianpei Zou

Diffusion models have been successfully applied to robotics problems such as manipulation and vehicle path planning. In this work, we explore their application to end-to-end navigation -- including both perception and planning -- by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 L. Lao Beyer , S. Karaman

This paper introduces TopoDiffuser, a diffusion-based framework for multimodal trajectory prediction that incorporates topometric maps to generate accurate, diverse, and road-compliant future motion forecasts. By embedding structural cues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zehui Xu , Junhui Wang , Yongliang Shi , Chao Gao , Guyue Zhou

This study presents a dynamic safety margin-based reinforcement learning framework for local motion planning in dynamic and uncertain environments. The proposed planner integrates real-time trajectory optimization with adaptive gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tengfei Liu , Haoyang Zhong , Jiazheng Hu , Tan Zhang

In many real-world scenarios, we often deal with streaming data that is sequentially collected over time. Due to the non-stationary nature of the environment, the streaming data distribution may change in unpredictable ways, which is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Wendi Li , Xiao Yang , Weiqing Liu , Yingce Xia , Jiang Bian

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen