Asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning methods

JD Gammell, MP Strub - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The internet of modular robotic things: Issues, limitations, challenges, & solutions

JPA Yaacoub, HN Noura, B Piranda - Internet of Things, 2023 - Elsevier
The world is becoming more digitised with the rise of modular robotic systems. Therefore,
with the increasing demands and needs for robotics, the modular robotic domain was …

An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring

M Popović, T Vidal-Calleja, G Hitz, JJ Chung, I Sa… - Autonomous …, 2020 - Springer
Unmanned aerial vehicles represent a new frontier in a wide range of monitoring and
research applications. To fully leverage their potential, a key challenge is planning missions …

CAtNIPP: Context-aware attention-based network for informative path planning

Y Cao, Y Wang, A Vashisth, H Fan… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Informative path planning (IPP) is an NP-hard problem, which aims at planning a path
allowing an agent to build an accurate belief about a quantity of interest throughout a given …

Energy-based legged robots terrain traversability modeling via deep inverse reinforcement learning

L Gan, JW Grizzle, RM Eustice… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work reports ondevelo** a deep inverse reinforcement learning method for legged
robots terrain traversability modeling that incorporates both exteroceptive and proprioceptive …

Gaussian processes autonomous map** and exploration for range-sensing mobile robots

M Ghaffari Jadidi, J Valls Miro, G Dissanayake - Autonomous Robots, 2018 - Springer
Most of the existing robotic exploration schemes use occupancy grid representations and
geometric targets known as frontiers. The occupancy grid representation relies on the …

Bayesian spatial kernel smoothing for scalable dense semantic map**

L Gan, R Zhang, JW Grizzle… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article develops a Bayesian continuous 3D semantic occupancy map from noisy point
clouds by generalizing the Bayesian kernel inference model for building occupancy maps, a …

Dual-layer path planning with pose SLAM for autonomous exploration in GPS-denied environments

S Zhang, R Cui, W Yan, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot exploration in GPS-denied environments is a significant challenge due to the lack of
reliable localization strategies. In this article, we propose a dual-layer planning approach …

Toward safety-aware informative motion planning for legged robots

S Teng, Y Gong, JW Grizzle, M Ghaffari - ar** an integrated framework for safety-aware informative
motion planning suitable for legged robots. The information-gathering planner takes a dense …

Autonomous exploration in a cluttered environment for a mobile robot with 2D-map segmentation and object detection

H Kim, H Kim, S Lee, H Lee - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Frontier-based exploration is widely adopted for exploring an unknown region. The
conventional frontier-based exploration for a mobile robot may collide with three …