Motions in microseconds via vectorized sampling-based planning

W Thomason, Z Kingston… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern sampling-based motion planning algorithms typically take between hundreds of
milliseconds to dozens of seconds to find collision-free motions for high degree-of-freedom …

Pinsat: Parallelized interleaving of graph search and trajectory optimization for kinodynamic motion planning

R Natarajan, S Mukherjee, H Choset… - 2024 IEEE/RSJ …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory optimization is a widely used technique in robot motion planning for letting the
dynamics of the system shape and synthesize complex behaviors. Several previous works …

Collision-Affording Point Trees: SIMD-Amenable Nearest Neighbors for Fast Collision Checking

CW Ramsey, Z Kingston, W Thomason… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motion planning against sensor data is often a critical bottleneck in real-time robot control.
For sampling-based motion planners, which are effective for high-dimensional systems such …

ePA* SE: Edge-based parallel A* for slow evaluations

S Mukherjee, S Aine, M Likhachev - Proceedings of the International …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Parallel search algorithms harness the multithreading capability of modern processors to
achieve faster planning. One such algorithm is PA* SE (Parallel A* for Slow Expansions) …

The stapl parallel graph library

Harshvardhan, A Fidel, NM Amato… - … Workshop on Languages …, 2012 - Springer
This paper describes the stapl Parallel Graph Library, a high-level framework that abstracts
the user from data-distribution and parallelism details and allows them to concentrate on …

Mplp: Massively parallelized lazy planning

S Mukherjee, S Aine… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lazy search algorithms have been developed to efficiently solve planning problems in
domains where the computational effort is dominated by the cost of edge evaluation. The …

A scalable distributed RRT for motion planning

SA Jacobs, N Stradford, C Rodriguez… - … on Robotics and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT), like other sampling-based motion planning
methods, has been very successful in solving motion planning problems. Even so, sampling …

A-epa* se: Anytime edge-based parallel a* for slow evaluations

H Yang, S Mukherjee, M Likhachev - Proceedings of the International …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Anytime search algorithms are useful for planning problems where a solution is desired
under a limited time budget. Anytime algorithms first aim to provide a feasible solution …

Adaptive neighbor connection for PRMs: A natural fit for heterogeneous environments and parallelism

C Ekenna, SA Jacobs, S Thomas… - 2013 IEEE/RSJ …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Probabilistic Roadmap Methods (PRMs) are widely used motion planning methods that
sample robot configurations (nodes) and connect them to form a graph (roadmap) …

Parallel motion planning using poisson-disk sampling

C Park, J Pan, D Manocha - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a rapidly exploring-random-tree-based parallel motion planning algorithm that
uses the maximal Poisson-disk sampling scheme. Our approach exploits the free-disk …