English
Related papers

Related papers: Fast Trajectory Planner with a Reinforcement Learn…

200 papers

In many applications, including logistics and manufacturing, robot manipulators operate in semi-structured environments alongside humans or other robots. These environments are largely static, but they may contain some movable obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Fahad Islam , Chris Paxton , Clemens Eppner , Bryan Peele , Maxim Likhachev , Dieter Fox

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

Sampling-based trajectory planners are widely used for agile autonomous driving due to their ability to generate fast, smooth, and kinodynamically feasible trajectories. However, their behavior is often governed by a cost function with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alexander Langmann , Yevhenii Tokarev , Mattia Piccinini , Korbinian Moller , Johannes Betz

We present Model Predictive Planning (MPP), a trajectory planner for low-agility vehicles such as a fixed-wing aircraft to navigate obstacle-laden environments. MPP consists of (1) a multi-path planning procedure that identifies candidate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Matthew T. Wallace , Brett Streetman , Laurent Lessard

Robotic trajectory planning in dynamic and cluttered environments remains a critical challenge, particularly when striving for both time efficiency and motion smoothness under actuation constraints. Traditional path planner, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adeetya Uppal , Rakesh Kumar Sahoo , Manoranjan Sinha

The goal of this paper is to develop a continuous optimization-based refinement of the reference trajectory to 'push it out' of the obstacle-occupied space in the global phase for Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles in unknown environments. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Geesara Kulathunga , Hany Hamed , Dmitry Devitt , Alexandr Klimchik

This paper presents a novel motion and trajectory planning algorithm for nonholonomic mobile robots that uses recent advances in deep reinforcement learning. Starting from a random initial state, i.e., position, velocity and orientation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Leonid Butyrev , Thorsten Edelhäußer , Christopher Mutschler

Obstacle avoidance is a fundamental and challenging problem for autonomous navigation of mobile robots. In this paper, we consider the problem of obstacle avoidance in simple 3D environments where the robot has to solely rely on a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Patrick Wenzel , Torsten Schön , Laura Leal-Taixé , Daniel Cremers

We present a novel algorithm for collision-free kinematics of multiple manipulators in a shared workspace with moving obstacles. Our optimization-based approach simultaneously handles collision-free constraints based on reciprocal velocity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Liangliang Zhao , Jingdong Zhao , Hong Liu , Dinesh Manocha

One of the fundamental tasks of autonomous driving is safe trajectory planning, the task of deciding where the vehicle needs to drive, while avoiding obstacles, obeying safety rules, and respecting the fundamental limits of road. Real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Milin Patel , Marzana Khatun , Rolf Jung , Michael Glaß

As legged robots take on roles in industrial and autonomous construction, collaborative loco-manipulation is crucial for handling large and heavy objects that exceed the capabilities of a single robot. However, ensuring the safety of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mohsen Sombolestan , Quan Nguyen

Legged robot locomotion requires the planning of stable reference trajectories, especially while traversing uneven terrain. The proposed trajectory optimization framework is capable of generating dynamically stable base and footstep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Oguzhan Cebe , Carlo Tiseo , Guiyang Xin , Hsiu-chin Lin , Joshua Smith , Michael Mistry

Safety is a core challenge of autonomous robot motion planning, especially in the presence of dynamic and uncertain obstacles. Many recent results use learning and deep learning-based motion planners and prediction modules to predict…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sleiman Safaoui , Tyler H. Summers

Ensuring safety is crucial to promote the application of robot manipulators in open workspaces. Factors such as sensor errors or unpredictable collisions make the environment full of uncertainties. In this work, we investigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xinyu Jia , Wenxin Wang , Jun Yang , Yongping Pan , Haoyong Yu

The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a collision-free path. However, these methods can be slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 J. Carvalho , A. Le , P. Kicki , D. Koert , J. Peters

Conventional trajectory planning approaches for autonomous racing are based on the sequential execution of prediction of the opposing vehicles and subsequent trajectory planning for the ego vehicle. If the opposing vehicles do not react to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Levent Ögretmen , Mo Chen , Phillip Pitschi , Boris Lohmann

In robot manipulation, planning the motion of a robot manipulator to grasp an object is a fundamental problem. A manipulation planner needs to generate a trajectory of the manipulator arm to avoid obstacles in the environment and plan an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Lirui Wang , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox

The motion planning problem of generating dynamically feasible, collision-free trajectories in non-convex environments is a fundamental challenge for autonomous systems. Decomposing the problem into path planning and path tracking improves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Shu Zhang , James Y. Z. Liu , Dominic Liao-McPherson

The challenge of mapping indoor environments is addressed. Typical heuristic algorithms for solving the motion planning problem are frontier-based methods, that are especially effective when the environment is completely unknown. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Elchanan Zwecher , Eran Iceland , Sean R. Levy , Shmuel Y. Hayoun , Oren Gal , Ariel Barel

The driving risk field is applicable to more complex driving scenarios, providing new approaches for safety decision-making and active vehicle control in intricate environments. However, existing research often overlooks the driving risk…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Wenjie Huang , Yang Li , Shijie Yuan , Jingjia Teng , Hongmao Qin , Yougang Bian