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This paper explores general multi-robot task and motion planning, where multiple robots in close proximity manipulate objects while satisfying constraints and a given goal. In particular, we formulate the plan refinement problem--which,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yoonchang Sung , Rahul Shome , Peter Stone

Large-scale GPU traces play a critical role in identifying performance bottlenecks within heterogeneous High-Performance Computing (HPC) architectures. However, the sheer volume and complexity of a single trace of data make performance…

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Multicore parallel programming has some very difficult problems such as deadlocks during synchronizations and race conditions brought by concurrency. Added to the difficulty is the lack of a simple, well-accepted computing model for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-12-09 Yibing Wang

Coverage control is essential for the optimal deployment of agents to monitor or cover areas with sensory demands. While traditional coverage involves single-task robots, increasing autonomy now enables multitask operations. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Lai Wei , Andrew McDonald , Vaibhav Srivastava

Many Imitation and Reinforcement Learning approaches rely on the availability of expert-generated demonstrations for learning policies or value functions from data. Obtaining a reliable distribution of trajectories from motion planners is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Alexander Lambert , Byron Boots

Modeling interactive driving behaviors in complex scenarios remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous driving planning. Learning-based approaches attempt to address this challenge with advanced generative models, removing the…

Search-based planning with motion primitives is a powerful motion planning technique that can provide dynamic feasibility, optimality, and real-time computation times on size, weight, and power-constrained platforms in unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Laura Jarin-Lipschitz , James Paulos , Raymond Bjorkman , Vijay Kumar

Structural parameters are normally extracted from observed galaxies by fitting analytic light profiles to the observations. Obtaining accurate fits to high-resolution images is a computationally expensive task, requiring many model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

This paper proposes a general formulation for temporal parallelisation of dynamic programming for optimal control problems. We derive the elements and associative operators to be able to use parallel scans to solve these problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Simo Särkkä , Ángel F. García-Fernández

In this paper we introduce and study a new concept of parametrised topological complexity, a topological invariant motivated by the motion planning problem of robotics. In the parametrised setting, a motion planning algorithm has high…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Daniel C. Cohen , Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

Many applications require to learn, mine, analyze and visualize large-scale graphs. These graphs are often too large to be addressed efficiently using conventional graph processing technologies. Many applications have requirements to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Santosh Pandey , Lingda Li , Adolfy Hoisie , Xiaoye S. Li , Hang Liu

With the growing complexity and capability of contemporary robotic systems, the necessity of sophisticated computing solutions to efficiently handle tasks such as real-time processing, sensor integration, decision-making, and control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Md Rafid Islam

We study the parameterized complexity of a generalization of the coordinated motion planning problem on graphs, where the goal is to route a specified subset of a given set of $k$ robots to their destinations with the aim of minimizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , M. S. Ramanujan

This paper proposes a data and Machine Learning-based forecasting solution for the Telecommunications network-rollout planning problem. Milestone completion-time estimation is crucial to network-rollout planning; accurate estimates enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Venkatachalam Natchiappan , Shrihari Vasudevan , Thalanayar Muthukumar

Sampling-based motion planners (SBMPs) are widely used to compute dynamically feasible robot paths. However, their reliance on uniform sampling often leads to poor efficiency and slow planning in complex environments. We introduce a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shubham Natraj , Bruno Sinopoli , Yiannis Kantaros

Motion planning with simple objectives, such as collision-avoidance and goal-reaching, can be solved efficiently using modern planners. However, the complexity of the allowed tasks for these planners is limited. On the other hand, signal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Wenliang Liu , Nathalie Majcherczyk , Federico Pecora

The problem of constrained coverage path planning involves a robot trying to cover maximum area of an environment under some constraints that appear as obstacles in the map. Out of the several coverage path planning methods, we consider…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Ankit Manerikar , Debasmit Das , Pranay Banerjee

In this paper we develop theory of sequential parametrized motion planning which generalises the approach of parametrized motion planning, which was introduced recently in [3]. A sequential parametrized motion planning algorithm produced a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

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