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Safe and effective motion planning is crucial for autonomous robots. Diffusion models excel at capturing complex agent interactions, a fundamental aspect of decision-making in dynamic environments. Recent studies have successfully applied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Giwon Lee , Daehee Park , Jaewoo Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to determine the shortest and collision-free paths for multiple agents in a known, potentially obstacle-ridden environment. It is the core challenge for robotic deployments in large-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Shuhao Liao , Weihang Xia , Yuhong Cao , Weiheng Dai , Chengyang He , Wenjun Wu , Guillaume Sartoretti

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

Image generation using diffusion can be controlled in multiple ways. In this paper, we systematically analyze the equations of modern generative diffusion networks to propose a framework, called MDP, that explains the design space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qian Wang , Biao Zhang , Michael Birsak , Peter Wonka

Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces. Unfortunately, it is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Simon Idoko , Prajyot Jadhav , Arun Kumar Singh

We hypothesize that a key bottleneck in generalizable robot manipulation is not solely data scale or policy capacity, but a structural mismatch between current visual backbones and the physical requirements of closed-loop control. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Deng , Yufeng Jin , Xiaogang Jia , Jiahong Xue , Gerhard Neumann , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Zain Alabedeen Ali , Konstantin Yakovlev

Map matching for sparse trajectories is a fundamental problem for many trajectory-based applications, e.g., traffic scheduling and traffic flow analysis. Existing methods for map matching are generally based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chenxu Han , Sean Bin Yang , Jilin Hu

We present DiPPeST, a novel image and goal conditioned diffusion-based trajectory generator for quadrupedal robot path planning. DiPPeST is a zero-shot adaptation of our previously introduced diffusion-based 2D global trajectory generator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Maria Stamatopoulou , Jianwei Liu , Dimitrios Kanoulas

The problem of mixed static and dynamic obstacle avoidance is essential for path planning in highly dynamic environment. However, the paths formed by grid edges can be longer than the true shortest paths in the terrain since their headings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Junxiao Xue , Xiangyan Kong , Bowei Dong , Mingliang Xu

Multi-robot systems offer enhanced capability over their monolithic counterparts, but they come at a cost of increased complexity in coordination. To reduce complexity and to make the problem tractable, multi-robot motion planning (MRMP)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Changrak Choi , Muhammad Adil , Amir Rahmani , Ramtin Madani

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is essential to large-scale robotic systems. Recent methods have applied reinforcement learning (RL) to learn decentralized polices in partially observable environments. A fundamental challenge of obtaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Ziyuan Ma , Yudong Luo , Hang Ma

This paper presents a novel probabilistic approach to deep robot learning from demonstrations (LfD). Deep movement primitives (DMPs) are deterministic LfD model that maps visual information directly into a robot trajectory. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alessandra Tafuro , Bappaditya Debnath , Andrea M. Zanchettin , Amir Ghalamzan E

The ability to learn multi-modal action distributions is indispensable for robotic manipulation policies to perform precise and robust control. Flow-based generative models have recently emerged as a promising solution to learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Guowei Zou , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu , Yukun Qian , Yuhang Wang , Weibing Li

We propose a novel centralized and decoupled algorithm, DDM, for solving multi-robot path planning problems in grid graphs, targeting on-demand and automated warehouse-like settings. Two settings are studied: a traditional one whose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Shuai D. Han , Jingjin Yu

Dynamic point cloud pretraining is still dominated by masked reconstruction objectives. However, these objectives inherit two key limitations. Existing methods inject ground-truth tube centers as decoder positional embeddings, causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhuoyue Zhang , Jihua Zhu , Chaowei Fang , Jian Liu , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Autonomous mobile robots operating in complex, dynamic environments face the dual challenge of navigating large-scale, structurally diverse spaces with static obstacles while safely interacting with various moving agents. Traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yury Kolomeytsev , Dmitry Golembiovsky

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics that asks us to compute collision-free paths for a team of agents, all moving across a shared map. Although many works appear on this topic, all current algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Jiaoyang Li , Peter J. Stuckey

We present a sampling-based framework for multi-robot motion planning which combines an implicit representation of a roadmap with a novel approach for pathfinding in geometrically embedded graphs tailored for our setting. Our pathfinding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman , Dan Halperin

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera