A review of recent trend in motion planning of industrial robots

MG Tamizi, M Yaghoubi, H Najjaran - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
Motion planning is an integral part of each robotic system. It is critical to develop an effective
motion in order to achieve a successful performance. The ability to generate a smooth …

Humanoid locomotion and manipulation: Current progress and challenges in control, planning, and learning

Z Gu, J Li, W Shen, W Yu, Z **e, S McCrory… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Humanoid robots have great potential to perform various human-level skills. These skills
involve locomotion, manipulation, and cognitive capabilities. Driven by advances in machine …

Receding-horizon reinforcement learning approach for kinodynamic motion planning of autonomous vehicles

X Zhang, Y Jiang, Y Lu, X Xu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kinodynamic motion planning is critical for autonomous vehicles with high maneuverability
in dynamic environments. However, obtaining near-optimal motion planning solutions with …

A survey on the integration of machine learning with sampling-based motion planning

T McMahon, A Sivaramakrishnan… - … and Trends® in …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
Sampling-based methods are widely adopted solutions for robot motion planning. The
methods are straightforward to implement, effective in practice for many robotic systems. It is …

Sampling-based exploration for reinforcement learning of dexterous manipulation

G Khandate, S Shang, ET Chang, TL Saidi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present a novel method for achieving dexterous manipulation of complex
objects, while simultaneously securing the object without the use of passive support …

Online and robust intermittent motion planning in dynamic and changing environments

Z Xu, GP Kontoudis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose RRT-Q, an online and intermittent kinodynamic motion planning
framework for dynamic environments with unknown robot dynamics and unknown …

Learning a Generalizable Trajectory Sampling Distribution for Model Predictive Control

T Power, D Berenson - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a sample-based model predictive control (MPC) method for collision-free
navigation that uses a normalizing flow as a sampling distribution, conditioned on the start …

Fast kinodynamic planning on the constraint manifold with deep neural networks

P Kicki, P Liu, D Tateo, H Bou-Ammar… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning is a mature area of research in robotics with many well-established
methods based on optimization or sampling the state space, suitable for solving kinematic …

Symmetry-Informed Reinforcement Learning and its Application to Low-Level Attitude Control of Quadrotors

J Huang, W Zeng, H **ong, BR Noack… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Symmetry is ubiquitous in nature, physics, and mathematics. However, a classical symmetry-
agnostic reinforcement learning (RL) approach cannot guarantee to respect symmetry …

R R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training

G Khandate, TL Saidi, S Shang, ET Chang, Y Liu… - Autonomous …, 2024 - Springer
We present a method for enabling Reinforcement Learning of motor control policies for
complex skills such as dexterous manipulation. We posit that a key difficulty for training such …