相关论文: DAA*: Deep Angular A Star for Image-based Path Pla…

We present Neural A*, a novel data-driven search method for path planning problems. Despite the recent increasing attention to data-driven path planning, machine learning approaches to search-based planning are still challenging due to the…

Path planning, which aims to find a collision-free path between two locations, is critical for numerous applications ranging from mobile robots to self-driving vehicles. Traditional search-based methods like A* search guarantee path…

As terrestrial resources become increasingly depleted, the demand for deep-sea resource exploration has intensified. However, the extreme conditions in the deep-sea environment pose significant challenges for underwater operations,…

Path planning for wheeled mobile robots is a critical component in the field of automation and intelligent transportation systems. Car-like vehicles, which have non-holonomic constraints on their movement capability impose additional…

The following paper is a reproducibility report for "Path Planning using Neural A* Search" published in ICML2 2021 as part of the ML Reproducibility Challenge 2021. The original paper proposes the Neural A* planner, and claims it achieves…

Safety is a critical concern for urban flights of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. In populated environments, risk should be accounted for to produce an effective and safe path, known as risk-aware path planning. Risk-aware path…

Offline reference trajectories for active target tracking are needed both for building multi-modal tracking datasets and for benchmarking online tracking planners under repeatable conditions. We present Track A star (TA star), an offline…

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Recently, the trend of incorporating differentiable algorithms into deep learning architectures arose in machine learning research, as the fusion of neural layers and algorithmic layers has been beneficial for handling combinatorial data,…

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into sampling-based motion planning provides new possibilities for improving autonomous navigation efficiency. In this paper, three algorithms, namely RRT*, Neural RRT*, and Neural Informed RRT*, are…

This paper presents a novel framework to accelerate route prediction in Drone-as-a-Service operations through weather-aware deep learning models. While classical path-planning algorithms, such as A* and Dijkstra, provide optimal solutions,…

This paper introduces a novel approach to urban pathfinding by transforming traditional heuristic-based algorithms into deep learning models that leverage real-time contextual data, such as traffic and weather conditions. We propose two…

We consider convex, black-box objective functions with additive or multiplicative noise with a high-dimensional parameter space and a data space of lower dimension, where gradients of the map exist, but may be inaccessible. We investigate…

Both geometric and semantic information of the search space is imperative for a good plan. We encode those properties in a weighted colored graph (geometric information in terms of edge weight and semantic information in terms of edge and…

Safe and efficient path planning in parking scenarios presents a significant challenge due to the presence of cluttered environments filled with static and dynamic obstacles. To address this, we propose a novel and computationally efficient…

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a non-invasive imaging modality that detects the ultrasound signal generated from tissue with light excitation. Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT) uses unfocused large-area light to illuminate the target…

Based on the weight-sharing mechanism, one-shot NAS methods train a supernet and then inherit the pre-trained weights to evaluate sub-models, largely reducing the search cost. However, several works have pointed out that the shared weights…

A* is a best-first search algorithm for finding optimal-cost paths in graphs. A* benefits significantly from parallelism because in many applications, A* is limited by memory usage, so distributed memory implementations of A* that use all…

This paper presents a novel image-based path planning algorithm that was developed using computer vision techniques, as well as its comparative analysis with well-known deterministic and probabilistic algorithms, namely A* and Probabilistic…