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This paper presents a numerical solver for computing continuous trajectories in non-convex environments. Our approach relies on a customized implementation of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) built upon two key…

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Time-jerk optimal trajectory planning is crucial in advancing robotic arms' performance in dynamic tasks. Traditional methods rely on solving complex nonlinear programming problems, bringing significant delays in generating optimized…

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In this study, we propose an algorithmic framework for solving a class of optimal control problems. This class is associated with the minimum-time interception of moving target problems, where a plant with a given state equation must…

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The problem Orienteering asks whether there exists a walk which visits a number of sites without exceeding some fuel budget. In the variant of the problem we consider, the cost of each edge in the walk is dependent on the time we depart one…

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LiDAR-based 3D single object tracking (3D SOT) is a critical task in robotics and autonomous systems. Existing methods typically follow frame-wise motion estimation or a sequence-based paradigm. However, the two-frame methods are efficient…

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This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

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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

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization seeks Pareto-optimal solutions over exponentially large discrete spaces, yet existing methods sacrifice generality, scalability, or theoretical guarantees. We reformulate it as an online learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Esha Singh , Dongxia Wu , Chien-Yi Yang , Tajana Rosing , Rose Yu , Yi-An Ma

We present a batch trajectory optimizer that can simultaneously solve hundreds of different instances of the problem in real-time. We consider holonomic robots but relax the assumption of circular base footprint. Our main algorithmic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Fatemeh Rastgar , Houman Masnavi , Karl Kruusamäe , Alvo Aabloo , Arun Kumar Singh

Two-stage methods addressing continuous shortest path problems start local minimization from discrete shortest paths in a spatial graph. The convergence of such hybrid methods to global minimizers hinges on the discretization error induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Ralf Borndörfer , Fabian Danecker , Martin Weiser

Optimization-based methods are commonly applied in autonomous driving trajectory planners, which transform the continuous-time trajectory planning problem into a finite nonlinear program with constraints imposed at finite collocation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bai Li , Youmin Zhang , Tantan Zhang , Tankut Acarman , Yakun Ouyang , Li Li , Hairong Dong , Dongpu Cao

Long time-duration low-thrust nonlinear optimal spacecraft trajectory global search is a computationally and time expensive problem characterized by clustering patterns in locally optimal solutions. During preliminary mission design,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Jannik Graebner , Ryne Beeson

Trajectory planning at high velocities and at the handling limits is a challenging task. In order to cope with the requirements of a race scenario, we propose a far-sighted two step, multi-layered graph-based trajectory planner, capable to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tim Stahl , Alexander Wischnewski , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Recurrent Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory, and Transformer have made great progress in predicting the trajectories of moving objects. Although the trajectory element with the surrounding scene features has been merged to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Wendong Zhang , Qingjie Chai , Quanqi Zhang , Chengwei Wu

This paper introduces a differential dynamic programming (DDP) based framework for polynomial trajectory generation for differentially flat systems. In particular, instead of using a linear equation with increasing size to represent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Kun Cao , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

To be applicable to real world scenarios trajectory planning schemes for mobile autonomous systems must be able to efficiently deal with obstacles in the area of operation. In the context of optimization based trajectory planning and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Max Lutz , Thomas Meurer

Motion planners for mobile robots in unknown environments face the challenge of simultaneously maintaining both robustness against unmodeled uncertainties and persistent feasibility of the trajectory-finding problem. That is, while dealing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Inkyu Jang , Dongjae Lee , Seungjae Lee , H. Jin Kim

The tractor-trailer robot consists of a drivable tractor and one or more non-drivable trailers connected via hitches. Compared to typical car-like robots, the addition of trailers provides greater transportation capability. However, this…

Trajectory planning and control have historically been separated into two modules in automated driving stacks. Trajectory planning focuses on higher-level tasks like avoiding obstacles and staying on the road surface, whereas the controller…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Rowan Dempster , Mohammad Al-Sharman , Derek Rayside , William Melek