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Fast, autonomous flight in unstructured, cluttered environments such as forests is challenging because it requires the robot to compute new plans in realtime on a computationally-constrained platform. In this paper, we enable this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , Xu Liu , Yuezhan Tao , Vijay Kumar

In unstructured environments, obstacles are diverse and lack lane markings, making trajectory planning for intelligent vehicles a challenging task. Traditional trajectory planning methods typically involve multiple stages, including path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumin Zhang , Kuo Li , Rui He , Zhiwei Meng , Yupeng Chang , Xiaosong Jin , Ri Bai

Motion trajectory planning is one crucial aspect for automated vehicles, as it governs the own future behavior in a dynamically changing environment. A good utilization of a vehicle's characteristics requires the consideration of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Franz Gritschneder , Knut Graichen , Klaus Dietmayer

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du , Lei Xie

Real-time, guaranteed safe trajectory planning is vital for navigation in unknown environments. However, real-time navigation algorithms typically sacrifice robustness for computation speed. Alternatively, provably safe trajectory planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mo Chen , Sylvia L. Herbert , Haimin Hu , Ye Pu , Jaime F. Fisac , Somil Bansal , SooJean Han , Claire J. Tomlin

This paper presents an optimization-based receding horizon trajectory planning algorithm for dynamical systems operating in unstructured and cluttered environments. The proposed approach is a two-step procedure that uses a motion planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Kristoffer Bergman , Oskar Ljungqvist , Torkel Glad , Daniel Axehill

Efficient trajectory planning for urban intersections is currently one of the most challenging tasks for an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). Courteous behavior towards other traffic participants, the AV's comfort and its progression in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Oliver Speidel , Maximilian Graf , Ankit Kaushik , Thanh Phan-Huu , Andreas Wedel , Klaus Dietmayer

Trajectory simplification is a problem encountered in areas like Robot programming by demonstration, CAD/CAM, computer vision, and in GPS-based applications like traffic analysis. This problem entails reduction of the points in a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Daniel L. Marino , Milos Manic

This paper presents a method for online trajectory planning in known environments. The proposed algorithm is a fusion of sampling-based techniques and model-based optimization via quadratic programming. The former is used to efficiently…

This paper focuses on automatic guided vehicle (AGV) trajectory planning in the presence of moving obstacles with known but complicated trajectories. In order to achieve good solution precision, optimality and unification, the concerned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bai Li , Youmin Zhang , Yakun Ouyang , Yi Liu , Xiang Zhong , Hangjie Cen , Qi Kong

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

We present an optimization-based framework for multicopter trajectory planning subject to geometrical configuration constraints and user-defined dynamic constraints. The basis of the framework is a novel trajectory representation built upon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhepei Wang , Xin Zhou , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

For multi-vehicle complex traffic scenarios in shared spaces such as intelligent intersections, safe coordination and trajectory planning is challenging due to computational complexity. To meet this challenge, we introduce a computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Amirreza Akbari , Johan Thunberg

We consider the problem of finding collision-free paths for curvature-constrained systems in the presence of obstacles while minimizing execution time. Specifically, we focus on the setting where a planar system can travel at some range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Doron Pinsky , Petr Váňa , Jan Faigl , Oren Salzman

Computing shortest paths is one of the most researched topics in algorithm engineering. Currently available algorithms compute shortest paths in mere fractions of a second on continental sized road networks. In the presence of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Moritz Kobitzsch , Samitha Samaranayake , Dennis Schieferdecker

Motion planning is a key aspect of robotics. A common approach to address motion planning problems is trajectory optimization. Trajectory optimization can represent the high-level behaviors of robots through mathematical formulations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Fatemeh Rastgar

Maneuvering an articulated vehicle on narrow road stretches is often a challenging task for a human driver. Unless the vehicle is accurately steered, parts of the vehicle's bodies may exceed its assigned drive lane, resulting in an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Rui Oliveira , Oskar Ljungqvist , Pedro F. Lima , Bo Wahlberg

Optimal sampling based motion planning and trajectory optimization are two competing frameworks to generate optimal motion plans. Both frameworks have complementary properties: Sampling based planners are typically slow to converge, but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Jay Kamat , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint , Florian T. Pokorny , Andreas Orthey

Autonomous vehicle navigation in structured environments requires planners capable of generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories that satisfy dynamic and kinematic constraints. We introduce V*, a graph-based motion planner that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Abdullah Zareh Andaryan , Michael G. H. Bell , Mohsen Ramezani , Glenn Geers

Though great effort has been put into the study of path planning on urban roads and highways, few works have studied the driving strategy and trajectory planning in low-speed driving scenarios, e.g., driving on a university campus or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yuying Chen , Haoyang Ye , Ming Liu