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This paper aims to improve the path quality and computational efficiency of kinodynamic planners used for vehicular systems. It proposes a learning framework for identifying promising controls during the expansion process of sampling-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Seth Karten , Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Troy McMahon , Kostas E. Bekris

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minseo Kwon , Young J. Kim

We explore path planning followed by kinodynamic smoothing while ensuring the vehicle dynamics feasibility for MAVs. We have chosen a geometrically based motion planning technique \textquotedblleft RRT*\textquotedblright\; for this purpose.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Geesara Kulathunga , Dmitry Devitt , Roman Fedorenko , Sergei Savin , Alexandr Klimchik

Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) has been identified as a suitable approach for finding an optimal solution to the behavior planning problem with low runtimes. Logical constraints and continuous equations are optimized alongside.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Klemens Esterle , Tobias Kessler , Alois Knoll

This paper presents an equivalence between feasible kinodynamic planning and optimal kinodynamic planning, in that any optimal planning problem can be transformed into a series of feasible planning problems in a state-cost space whose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Kris Hauser , Yilun Zhou

Motion planning under dynamics constraints, i.e, kinodynamic planning, enables safe robot operation by generating dynamically feasible trajectories that the robot can accurately track. For high-DOF robots such as manipulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Thai Duong , Clayton W. Ramsey , Zachary Kingston , Wil Thomason , Lydia E. Kavraki

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used for robot motion planning with complex kinodynamic constraints in high-dimensional spaces, yet they struggle to achieve \emph{real-time} performance due to their serial computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nicolas Perrault , Qi Heng Ho , Morteza Lahijanian

We present Kinodynamic RRT*, an incremental sampling-based approach for asymptotically optimal motion planning for robots with linear differential constraints. Our approach extends RRT*, which was introduced for holonomic robots (Karaman et…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-24 Dustin J. Webb , Jur van den Berg

This paper proposes a novel and efficient optimization-based method for generating near time-optimal trajectories for holonomic vehicles navigating through complex but structured environments. The approach aims to solve the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Louis Callens , Bastiaan Vandewal , Ibrahim Ibrahim , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

Motion planning for robotic systems with complex dynamics is a challenging problem. While recent sampling-based algorithms achieve asymptotic optimality by propagating random control inputs, their empirical convergence rate is often poor,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Wolfgang Hoenig , Valentin N. Hartmann , Marc Toussaint

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast flight in 3-D complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching method to find a safe, kinodynamic feasible and minimum-time initial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Boyu Zhou , Fei Gao , Luqi Wang , Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

This paper introduces Bidirectional Tight Informed Trees (BTIT*), an asymptotically optimal kinodynamic sampling-based motion planning algorithm that integrates an anytime bidirectional heuristic search (Bi-HS) and ensures the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Wang , Bingxian Mu , Shahab Shokouhi , May-Win Thein

This paper addresses the kinodynamic motion planning for non-holonomic robots in dynamic environments with both static and dynamic obstacles -- a challenging problem that lacks a universal solution yet. One of the promising approaches to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Brian Angulo , Aleksandr Panov , Konstantin Yakovlev

We tackle the problem of planning a minimum-time trajectory for a quadrotor over a sequence of specified waypoints in the presence of obstacles while exploiting the full quadrotor dynamics. This problem is crucial for autonomous search and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Robert Penicka , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper extends the RRT* algorithm, a recently developed but widely-used sampling-based optimal motion planner, in order to effectively handle nonlinear kinodynamic constraints. Nonlinearity in kinodynamic differential constraints often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi , Jeong hwan Jeon

Sampling-based motion planning algorithms such as RRT* are well-known for their ability to quickly find an initial solution and then converge to the optimal solution asymptotically. However, the convergence rate can be slow for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Dongliang Zheng , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper addresses the problem of planning time-optimal trajectories for multiple cooperative agents along specified paths through a static road network. Vehicle interactions at intersections create non-trivial decisions, with complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Philip Gun , Andrew Hill , Robin Vujanic

The powertrain of battery electric vehicles can be optimized to maximize the travel distance for a given amount of stored energy in the traction battery. To achieve this, a combined control and design problem has to be solved which results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Philipp Leise , Peter F. Pelz

We present a novel approach for generating motion primitives for kinodynamic motion planning using diffusion models. The motions generated by our approach are adapted to each problem instance by utilizing problem-specific parameters,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julius Franke , Akmaral Moldagalieva , Pia Hanfeld , Wolfgang Hönig