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This paper presents a method for robotic monitoring missions in the presence of moving obstacles. Although the scenario map is known, the robot lacks information about the movement of dynamic obstacles during the monitoring mission.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yaroslav Marchukov , Luis Montano

Simultaneous Localization and Planning (SLAP) under process and measurement uncertainties is a challenge. It involves solving a stochastic control problem modeled as a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) in a general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty , P. R. Kumar

Box/cabinet scenarios with stacked objects pose significant challenges for robotic motion due to visual occlusions and constrained free space. Traditional collision-free trajectory planning methods often fail when no collision-free paths…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chengjin Wang , Zheng Yan , Yanmin Zhou , Runjie Shen , Zhipeng Wang , Bin Cheng , Bin He

Mobile robot platforms are increasingly being used to automate information gathering tasks such as environmental monitoring. Efficient target tracking in dynamic environments is critical for applications such as search and rescue and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sanjeev Ramkumar Sudha , Marija Popović , Erlend M. Coates

Most, if not all, robot navigation systems employ a decomposed planning framework that includes global and local planning. To trade-off onboard computation and plan quality, current systems have to limit all robot dynamics considerations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yuanjie Lu , Tong Xu , Linji Wang , Nick Hawes , Xuesu Xiao

Forecasting the scalable future states of surrounding traffic participants in complex traffic scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous vehicles, as it enables safe and feasible decision-making. Recent successes in learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

Safe navigation of cluttered environments is a critical challenge in robotics. It is typically approached by separating the planning and tracking problems, with planning executed on a reduced order model to generate reference trajectories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 William D. Compton , Noel Csomay-Shanklin , Cole Johnson , Aaron D. Ames

Autonomous driving technology is rapidly evolving and becoming a pivotal element of modern automation systems. Effective decision-making and planning are essential to ensuring autonomous vehicles operate safely and efficiently in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zhicheng Zhang

This paper presents a novel data-driven approach to vehicle motion planning and control in off-road driving scenarios. For autonomous off-road driving, environmental conditions impact terrain traversability as a function of weather, surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hossein Rastgoftar , Bingxin Zhang , Ella M. Atkins

Robust obstacle avoidance is one of the critical steps for successful goal-driven indoor navigation tasks.Due to the obstacle missing in the visual image and the possible missed detection issue, visual image-based obstacle avoidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wei Xie , Haobo Jiang , Shuo Gu , Jin Xie

In the context of urban autonomous driving, imitation learning-based methods have shown remarkable effectiveness, with a typical practice to minimize the discrepancy between expert driving logs and predictive decision sequences. As expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ren Xin , Jie Cheng , Hongji Liu , Jun Ma

Conventional trajectory planning approaches for autonomous vehicles often assume a fixed vehicle model that remains constant regardless of the vehicle's location. This overlooks the critical fact that the tires and the surface are the two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Frederik Werner , Ann-Kathrin Schwehn , Markus Lienkamp , Johannes Betz

During recent years, unmanned surface vehicles are extensively utilised in a variety of maritime applications such as the exploration of unknown areas, autonomous transportation, offshore patrol and others. In such maritime applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiawei Meng , Yuanchang Liu , Danail Stoyanov

In unknown cluttered environments with densely stacked objects, the free-motion space is extremely barren, posing significant challenges to motion planners. Collision-free planning methods often suffer from catastrophic failures due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chengjin Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Zheng Yan , Feng Luan , Runjie Shen , Hongrui Sang , Zhipeng Wang , Bin He

In this paper, we introduce a new probabilistically safe local steering primitive for sampling-based motion planning in complex high-dimensional configuration spaces. Our local steering procedure is based on a new notion of a convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Jinwook Huh , Omur Arslan , Daniel D. Lee

Autonomous driving systems must operate smoothly in human-populated indoor environments, where challenges arise including limited perception and occlusions when relying only on onboard sensors, as well as the need for socially compliant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Minghao Ning , Yufeng Yang , Shucheng Huang , Jiaming Zhong , Keqi Shu , Chen Sun , Ehsan Hashemi , Amir Khajepour

In this paper, we present a task space-based local motion planner that incorporates collision avoidance and constraints on end-effector motion during the execution of a task. Our key technical contribution is the development of a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Anirban Sinha , Anik Sarker , Nilanjan Chakraborty

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

To plan safe trajectories in urban environments, autonomous vehicles must be able to quickly assess the future intentions of dynamic agents. Pedestrians are particularly challenging to model, as their motion patterns are often uncertain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sarah Ferguson , Brandon Luders , Robert C. Grande , Jonathan P. How