Prm-rl: Long-range robotic navigation tasks by combining reinforcement learning and sampling-based planning

A Faust, K Oslund, O Ramirez, A Francis… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present PRM-RL, a hierarchical method for long-range navigation task completion that
combines sampling-based path planning with reinforcement learning (RL). The RL agents …

Motion planning with temporal-logic specifications: Progress and challenges

E Plaku, S Karaman - AI communications, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Integrating task and motion planning is becoming increasingly important due to the
recognition that a growing number of robotics applications in navigation, search-and-rescue …

Motion planning algorithms for molecular simulations: A survey

I Al-Bluwi, T Siméon, J Cortés - Computer Science Review, 2012 - Elsevier
Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that has motivated research since
more than three decades ago. A large variety of algorithms have been proposed to compute …

Long-range indoor navigation with PRM-RL

A Francis, A Faust, HTL Chiang, J Hsu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Long-range indoor navigation requires guiding robots with noisy sensors and controls
through cluttered environments along paths that span a variety of buildings. We achieve this …

Resolution independent density estimation for motion planning in high-dimensional spaces

B Gipson, M Moll, LE Kavraki - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new motion planner, Search Tree with Resolution Independent
Density Estimation (STRIDE), designed for rapid exploration and path planning in high …

Region-guided and sampling-based tree search for motion planning with dynamics

E Plaku - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a motion planner, termed Guided Sampling Tree (GUST), geared
toward mobile robots with nonlinear dynamics and nonholonomic constraints operating in …

Structure-guided protein transition modeling with a probabilistic roadmap algorithm

T Maximova, E Plaku, A Shehu - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proteins are macromolecules in perpetual motion, switching between structural states to
modulate their function. A detailed characterization of the precise yet complex relationship …

A connectivity-based method for enhancing sampling in probabilistic roadmap planners

MT Rantanen - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2011 - Springer
The motion planning is a difficult problem but nevertheless, a crucial part of robotics. The
probabilistic roadmap planners have shown to be an efficient way to solve these planning …

Sample-based models of protein energy landscapes and slow structural rearrangements

T Maximova, Z Zhang, DB Carr, E Plaku… - Journal of …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Proteins often undergo slow structural rearrangements that involve several angstroms and
surpass the nanosecond timescale. These spatiotemporal scales challenge physics-based …

A general, adaptive, roadmap-based algorithm for protein motion computation

K Molloy, A Shehu - IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precious information on protein function can be extracted from a detailed characterization of
protein equilibrium dynamics. This remains elusive in wet and dry laboratories, as function …