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We consider the problem of finding minimum-link rectilinear paths in rectilinear polygonal domains in the plane. A path or a polygon is rectilinear if all its edges are axis-parallel. Given a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $h$ pairwise-disjoint…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Valentin Polishchuk , Mikko Sysikaski , Haitao Wang

We study the problem of determining coordinated motions, of minimum total length, for two arbitrary convex centrally-symmetric (CCS) robots in an otherwise obstacle-free plane. Using the total path length traced by the two robot centres as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-05 David Kirkpatrick , Paul Liu

A high redundant non-holonomic humanoid mobile dual-arm manipulator system is presented in this paper where the motion planning to realize "human-like" autonomous navigation and manipulation tasks is studied. Firstly, an improved MaxiMin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Yan Wei , Wei Jiang , Ahmed Rahmani , Qiang Zhan

This paper deals with a path planning and intelligent control of an autonomous robot which should move safely in partially structured environment. This environment may involve any number of obstacles of arbitrary shape and size; some of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Danica Janglova

This paper presents a solution for the problem of optimal planning for a robot in a collaborative human-robot team, where the human supervisor is intermittently available to assist the robot in completing tasks more quickly. Specifically,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Abhinav Dahiya , Stephen L. Smith

Generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories for autonomous mobile robots involves a fundamental trade-off between guaranteeing safety and managing computational complexity. State-of-the-art approaches formulate spline-based motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dries Dirckx , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

In this paper, we tackle the problem of planning an optimal coverage path for a robot operating indoors. Many existing approaches attempt to discourage turns in the path by covering the environment along the least number of coverage lines,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Megnath Ramesh , Frank Imeson , Baris Fidan , Stephen L. Smith

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 deal with the problem of planning collision-free trajectories for robots operating in a shared space. Given the start and destination position for each of the robots, the task is to find trajectories for all robots that reach their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Alexander Kleiner

Coordinating the motion of multiple robots in cluttered environments remains a computationally challenging task. We study the problem of minimizing the execution time of a set of geometric paths by a team of robots with state-dependent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Katherine Mao , Igor Spasojevic , Malakhi Hopkins , M. Ani Hsieh , Vijay Kumar

Online planning of collision-free trajectories is a fundamental task for robotics and self-driving car applications. This paper revisits collision avoidance between ellipsoidal objects using differentiable constraints. Two ellipsoids do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yunfan Gao , Florian Messerer , Niels van Duijkeren , Boris Houska , Moritz Diehl

This paper presents an optimal $\Theta(n \log n)$ algorithm for determining time-minimal rectilinear paths among $n$ transient rectilinear obstacles. An obstacle is transient if it exists in the scene only for a specific time interval,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Anil Maheshwari , Arash Nouri , Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

We present optimal motion planning algorithms which can be used in designing practical systems controlling objects moving in Euclidean space without collisions. Our algorithms are optimal in a very concrete sense, namely, they have the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata , Jesus Gonzalez

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Given a set of $n$ point robots inside a simple polygon $P$, the task is to move the robots from their starting positions to their target positions along their shortest paths, while the mutual visibility of these robots is preserved.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rusul J. Alsaedi , Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen

Learning motion planners to move robot from one point to another within an obstacle-occupied space in a collision-free manner requires either an extensive amount of data or high-quality demonstrations. This requirement is caused by the fact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xuesu Xiao , Bo Liu , Peter Stone

We exhibit an algorithm with continuous instructions for two robots moving without collisions on a track shaped as a wedge of three circles. We show that the topological complexity of the configuration space associated with this problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Elif Sensoy

A new closed-form solver is proposed minimizing the algebraic error optimally, in the least-squares sense, to estimate the relative planar motion of two calibrated cameras. The main objective is to solve the over-determined case, i.e., when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Levente Hajder , Daniel Barath

This paper is concerned with problems relevant to motion planning in robotics. Configuration spaces are of practical relevance in designing safe control schemes for robots moving on a track. The topological complexity of a configuration…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Allaoua Boughrira , Hellen Colman

In this series of papers, we present a motion planning framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of nonholonomic mobile robots such as intelligent wheelchairs and autonomous cars. In Part I, we presented the mathematical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Shilpa Gulati , Chetan Jhurani , Benjamin Kuipers