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Path planning for wheeled mobile robots is a critical component in the field of automation and intelligent transportation systems. Car-like vehicles, which have non-holonomic constraints on their movement capability impose additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lukas Schichler , Karin Festl , Selim Solmaz , Daniel Watzenig

This paper describes a number of distributed forward search algorithms for solving multi-agent planning problems. We introduce a distributed formulation of non-optimal forward search, as well as an optimal version, MAD-A*. Our algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Raz Nissim , Ronen Brafman

In both industrial and service domains, a central benefit of the use of robots is their ability to quickly and reliably execute repetitive tasks. However, even relatively simple peg-in-hole tasks are typically subject to stochastic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjamin Alt , Darko Katic , Rainer Jäkel , Michael Beetz

In recent years, significant progress has been made on algorithms for learning optimal decision trees, primarily in the context of binary features. Extending these methods to continuous features remains substantially more challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Harold Kiossou , Pierre Schaus , Siegfried Nijssen

Metaheuristic algorithms are widely used for solving complex optimization problems, yet their effectiveness is often constrained by fixed structures and the need for extensive tuning. The Polymorphic Metaheuristic Framework (PMF) addresses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Faramarz Safi Esfahani , Ghassan Beydoun , Morteza Saberi , Brad McCusker , Biswajeet Pradhan

Many of the artificial intelligence techniques developed to date rely on heuristic search through large spaces. Unfortunately, the size of these spaces and the corresponding computational effort reduce the applicability of otherwise novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 D. J. Cook , R. C. Varnell

In real life, it is always an urge to reach our goal in minimum effort i.e., it should have a minimum constrained path. The path may be shortest route in practical life, either physical or electronic medium. The scenario is to represents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Sounak Sadhukhan , Samar Sen Sarma

Path planning, which aims to find a collision-free path between two locations, is critical for numerous applications ranging from mobile robots to self-driving vehicles. Traditional search-based methods like A* search guarantee path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiangyu Chen , Fan Yang , Chen Wang

Predictive motion planning is the key to achieve energy-efficient driving, which is one of the main benefits of automated driving. Researchers have been studying the planning of velocity trajectories, a simpler form of motion planning, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Zlatan Ajanovic , Michael Stolz , Martin Horn

Optimal path planning is the problem of finding a valid sequence of states between a start and goal that optimizes an objective. Informed path planning algorithms order their search with problem-specific knowledge expressed as heuristics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Marlin P. Strub , Jonathan D. Gammell

We propose an algorithmic framework for efficient anytime motion planning on large dense geometric roadmaps, in domains where collision checks and therefore edge evaluations are computationally expensive. A large dense roadmap (graph) can…

Multi-agent path planning is a challenging problem with numerous real-life applications. Running a centralized search such as A* in the combined state space of all units is complete and cost-optimal, but scales poorly, as the state space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Ko-Hsin Cindy Wang , Adi Botea

The research area of real-time heuristics search has produced quite many algorithms. In the landscape of real-time heuristics search research, it is not rare to find that an algorithm X that appears to perform better than algorithm Y on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Md Solimul Chowdhury , Victor Silva

We present Neural A*, a novel data-driven search method for path planning problems. Despite the recent increasing attention to data-driven path planning, machine learning approaches to search-based planning are still challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ryo Yonetani , Tatsunori Taniai , Mohammadamin Barekatain , Mai Nishimura , Asako Kanezaki

Modern robotics often involves multiple embodied agents operating within a shared environment. Path planning in these cases is considerably more challenging than in single-agent scenarios. Although standard Sampling-based Algorithms (SBAs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alessandro Zanardi , Pietro Zullo , Andrea Censi , Emilio Frazzoli

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

We present a lazy incremental search algorithm, Lifelong-GLS (L-GLS), along with its bounded suboptimal version, Bounded L-GLS (B-LGLS) that combine the search efficiency of incremental search algorithms with the evaluation efficiency of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jaein Lim , Mahdi Ghanei , R. Connor Lawson , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The Single-Source Shortest Path (SSSP) problem is well-known for the challenges in developing fast, practical, and work-efficient parallel algorithms. This work introduces a novel shortest path search method. It allows paths with different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Huashan Yu , Xiaolin Wang , Yingwei Luo

Metaheuristic search algorithms look for solutions that either maximise or minimise a set of objectives, such as cost or performance. However most real-world optimisation problems consist of nonlinear problems with complex constraints and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Manjinder Singh , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , David Cairns

Construction robots have gained significant traction in recent years in research and development. However, the application of industrial robots has unique challenges. Dynamic environments, domain-specific tasks, and complex localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mani Amani , Reza Akhavian