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Safe and computationally efficient local planning for mobile robots in dense, unstructured human crowds remains a fundamental challenge. Moreover, ensuring that robot trajectories are similar to how a human moves will increase the…

Motion planning and control are two core components of the robotic systems autonomy stack. The standard approach to combine these methodologies comprises an offline/open-loop stage, planning, that designs a feasible and safe trajectory to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Tianqi Zheng , John W. Simpson-Porco , Enrique Mallada

Coordinating a team of robots to reposition multiple objects in cluttered environments requires reasoning jointly about where robots should establish contact, how to manipulate objects once contact is made, and how to navigate safely and…

The growing integration of mobile robots in shared workspaces requires efficient path planning and coordination between the agents, accounting for safety and productivity. In this work, we propose a digital model-based optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Christian Cella , Sole Ester Sonnino , Marco Faroni , Andrea Zanchettin , Paolo Rocco

Sequentially solving similar optimization problems under strict runtime constraints is essential for many applications, such as robot control, autonomous driving, and portfolio management. The performance of local optimization methods in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Elad Sharony , Heng Yang , Tong Che , Marco Pavone , Shie Mannor , Peter Karkus

Motion planning framed as optimisation in structured latent spaces has recently emerged as competitive with traditional methods in terms of planning success while significantly outperforming them in terms of computational speed. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jun Yamada , Chia-Man Hung , Jack Collins , Ioannis Havoutis , Ingmar Posner

This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingshan Chen , Bochen Yu , Henrik Ebel , Peter Eberhard

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

Generating obstacle-free trajectories for robotic manipulators in unstructured and cluttered environments remains a significant challenge. Existing motion planning methods often require additional computational effort to generate the final…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yongliang Wang , Hamidreza Kasaei

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

Robots will increasingly operate near humans that introduce uncertainties in the motion planning problem due to their complex nature. Typically, chance constraints are introduced in the planner to optimize performance while guaranteeing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora

Achieving reactive robot behavior in complex dynamic environments is still challenging as it relies on being able to solve trajectory optimization problems quickly enough, such that we can replan the future motion at frequencies which are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Julius Jankowski , Lara Brudermüller , Nick Hawes , Sylvain Calinon

Human awareness in robot motion planning is crucial for seamless interaction with humans. Many existing techniques slow down, stop, or change the robot's trajectory locally to avoid collisions with humans. Although using the information on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Marco Faroni , Manuel Beschi , Nicola Pedrocchi

Autonomous mobile robots (e.g., warehouse logistics robots) often need to traverse complex, obstacle-rich, and changing environments to reach multiple fixed goals (e.g., warehouse shelves). Traditional motion planners need to calculate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuanjie Lu , Dibyendu Das , Erion Plaku , Xuesu Xiao

A popular way to plan trajectories in dynamic urban scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles is to rely on explicitly specified and hand crafted cost functions, coupled with random sampling in the trajectory space to find the minimum cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shubhankar Agarwal , Harshit Sikchi , Cole Gulino , Eric Wilkinson , Shivam Gautam

Robust robot planning in dynamic, human-centric environments remains challenging due to multimodal uncertainty, the need for real-time adaptation, and safety requirements. Optimization-based planners enable explicit constraint handling but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kazuki Mizuta , Karen Leung

This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Multi-robot control in cluttered environments is a challenging problem that involves complex physical constraints, including robot-robot collisions, robot-obstacle collisions, and unreachable motions. Successful planning in such settings…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiabao Ji , Yongchao Chen , Yang Zhang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Chuchu Fan , Gaowen Liu , Shiyu Chang

Applying intelligent robot arms in dynamic uncertain environments (i.e., flexible production lines) remains challenging, which requires efficient algorithms for real time trajectory generation. The motion planning problem for robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Weiye Zhao , Suqin He , Chengtao Wen , Changliu Liu

Robotic instruction following tasks require seamless integration of visual perception, task planning, target localization, and motion execution. However, existing task planning methods for instruction following are either data-driven or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zijun Lin , Chao Tang , Hanjing Ye , Hong Zhang