Motion Planning
Motion planning focuses on generating safe and efficient trajectories for robots and autonomous systems to navigate complex environments and achieve specified goals. Current research emphasizes improving the efficiency of sampling-based methods through techniques like message-passing Monte Carlo and leveraging vision-language models and reinforcement learning for higher-level task planning and decision-making in dynamic scenarios. These advancements are crucial for enabling robots to perform increasingly complex tasks in real-world settings, impacting fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and multi-agent systems.
Papers
Differentiable GPU-Parallelized Task and Motion Planning
William Shen, Caelan Garrett, Ankit Goyal, Tucker Hermans, Fabio Ramos
cHyRRT and cHySST: Two Motion Planning Tools for Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Beverly Xu (1), Nan Wang (2), Ricardo Sanfelice (2) ((1) Saratoga High School, (2) University of California, Santa Cruz)
An Efficient Representation of Whole-body Model Predictive Control for Online Compliant Dual-arm Mobile Manipulation
Wenqian Du, Ran Long, João Moura, Jiayi Wang, Saeid Samadi, Sethu Vijayakumar
SoftCTRL: Soft conservative KL-control of Transformer Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
Minh Tri Huynh, Duc Dung Nguyen
CaStL: Constraints as Specifications through LLM Translation for Long-Horizon Task and Motion Planning
Weihang Guo, Zachary Kingston, Lydia E. Kavraki
On the Synthesis of Reactive Collision-Free Whole-Body Robot Motions: A Complementarity-based Approach
Haowen Yao, Riddhiman Laha, Anirban Sinha, Jonas Hall, Luis F.C. Figueredo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Sami Haddadin