Path smoothing techniques in robot navigation: State-of-the-art, current and future challenges

A Ravankar, AA Ravankar, Y Kobayashi, Y Hoshino… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Robot navigation is an indispensable component of any mobile service robot. Many path
planning algorithms generate a path which has many sharp or angular turns. Such paths are …

A swarm intelligence graph-based pathfinding algorithm (SIGPA) for multi-objective route planning

C Ntakolia, DK Iakovidis - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Personalized tourist route planning (TRP) and navigation are online or real-time
applications whose mathematical modeling leads to complex optimization problems. These …

Application of a-star algorithm on pathfinding game

A Candra, MA Budiman, RI Pohan - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Pathfinding is the method for determining the shortest path. Pathfinding is widely used in
various fields of Computer Science. One of them is game development. This research will …

[HTML][HTML] An indoor navigation methodology for mobile devices by integrating augmented reality and semantic web

JI Rubio-Sandoval, JL Martinez-Rodriguez… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Indoor navigation systems incorporating augmented reality allow users to locate places
within buildings and acquire more knowledge about their environment. However, although …

[HTML][HTML] Symbiotic navigation in multi-robot systems with remote obstacle knowledge sharing

A Ravankar, AA Ravankar, Y Kobayashi, T Emaru - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
Large scale operational areas often require multiple service robots for coverage and task
parallelism. In such scenarios, each robot keeps its individual map of the environment and …

I/o-efficient multi-criteria shortest paths query processing on large graphs

X Zhou, K Huang, L Li, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shortest path computation is a basic operation for many graph-based applications and has
been extensively studied. However, most existing works only consider the optimal path of a …

A swarm intelligence graph-based pathfinding algorithm based on fuzzy logic (sigpaf): A case study on unmanned surface vehicle multi-objective path planning

C Ntakolia, DV Lyridis - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 - mdpi.com
Advances in robotic motion and computer vision have contributed to the increased use of
automated and unmanned vehicles in complex and dynamic environments for various …

Optimal control of point-to-point navigation in turbulent time dependent flows using reinforcement learning

M Buzzicotti, L Biferale, F Bonaccorso… - … Conference of the …, 2020 - Springer
We present theoretical and numerical results concerning the problem to find the path that
minimizes the time to navigate between two given points in a complex fluid under realistic …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for efficient dynamic routing under stochastically varying conditions

N Levering, M Boon, M Mandjes… - … research part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite measures to reduce congestion, occurrences of both recurrent and non-recurrent
congestion cause large delays in road networks with important economic implications …

Navigation functions with time-varying destination manifolds in star worlds

C Li, HG Tanner - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper formally constructs navigation functions with time-varying destinations on star
worlds. The construction is based on appropriate diffeomorphic transformations and extends …