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Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Computationally tractable methods are developed for centralized goal assignment and planning of collision-free polynomial-in-time trajectories for systems of multiple aerial robots. The method first assigns robots to goals to minimize total…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Benjamin Gravell , Tyler Summers

This paper studies motion planning of a mobile robot under uncertainty. The control objective is to synthesize a {finite-memory} control policy, such that a high-level task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula is satisfied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

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

Automating labor-intensive tasks such as crop monitoring with robots is essential for enhancing production and conserving resources. However, autonomously monitoring horticulture crops remains challenging due to their complex structures,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Allen Isaac Jose , Sicong Pan , Tobias Zaenker , Rohit Menon , Sebastian Houben , Maren Bennewitz

Multi-robot systems are widely used for coverage tasks that require efficient coordination across large environments. In Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP), the objective is typically to minimize the makespan by generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Kanghoon Lee , Hyeonjun Kim , Jiachen Li , Jinkyoo Park

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

For robots to successfully execute tasks assigned to them, they must be capable of planning the right sequence of actions. These actions must be both optimal with respect to a specified objective and satisfy whatever constraints exist in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Alphonsus Adu-Bredu , Nikhil Devraj , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jacob J. Johnson , Uday S. Kalra , Ankit Bhatia , Linjun Li , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

This paper presents a method for constrained motion planning from vision, which enables a robot to move its end-effector over an observed surface, given start and destination points. The robot has no prior knowledge of the surface shape,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 T. Pardi , V. Ortenzi , C. Fairbairn , T. Pipe , A. M. Ghalamzan E. , R. Stolkin

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in autonomous robotics that requires finding a path to a specified goal that avoids obstacles and takes into account a robot's limitations and constraints. It is often desirable for this path to also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan D. Gammell , Marlin P. Strub

Modern manipulators are acclaimed for their precision but often struggle to operate in confined spaces. This limitation has driven the development of hyper-redundant and continuum robots. While these present unique advantages, they face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Avi Cohen , Avishai Sintov , David Zarrouk

A motion planning algorithm computes the motion of a robot by computing a path through its configuration space. To improve the runtime of motion planning algorithms, we propose to nest robots in each other, creating a nested quotient-space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Andreas Orthey , Adrien Escande , Eiichi Yoshida

The problem of planning for a robot that operates in environments containing a large number of objects, taking actions to move itself through the world as well as to change the state of the objects, is known as task and motion planning…

In this work, we present an extension to a linear Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme that plans external contact forces for the robot when given multiple contact locations and their corresponding friction cone. To this end, we set up a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Sean Mason , Nicholas Rotella , Stefan Schaal , Ludovic Righetti

We consider a problem called task ordering with path uncertainty (TOP-U) where multiple robots are provided with a set of task locations to visit in a bounded environment, but the length of the path between a pair of task locations is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Bradley Woosley , Prithviraj Dasgupta

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

We study unlabeled multi-robot motion planning for unit-disk robots in a polygonal environment. Although the problem is hard in general, polynomial-time solutions exist under appropriate separation assumptions on start and target positions.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tsuri Farhana , Omrit Filtser , Shalev Goldshtein

We consider the unlabeled motion-planning problem of $m$ unit-disc robots moving in a simple polygonal workspace of $n$ edges. The goal is to find a motion plan that moves the robots to a given set of $m$ target positions. For the unlabeled…

We present a fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm to find a shortest curve that encloses a set of k required objects in the plane while paying a penalty for enclosing unwanted objects. The input is a set of interior-disjoint simple…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Therese Biedl , Éric Colin de Verdière , Fabrizio Frati , Anna Lubiw , Günter Rote