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
Representation, learning, and planning algorithms for geometric task and motion planning
Beomjoon Kim, Luke Shimanuki, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
PUTN: A Plane-fitting based Uneven Terrain Navigation Framework
Zhuozhu Jian, Zihong Lu, Xiao Zhou, Bin Lan, Anxing Xiao, Xueqian Wang, Bin Liang
Cooperative Task and Motion Planning for Multi-Arm Assembly Systems
Jingkai Chen, Jiaoyang Li, Yijiang Huang, Caelan Garrett, Dawei Sun, Chuchu Fan, Andreas Hofmann, Caitlin Mueller, Sven Koenig, Brian C. Williams
Where to Look Next: Learning Viewpoint Recommendations for Informative Trajectory Planning
Max Lodel, Bruno Brito, Álvaro Serra-Gómez, Laura Ferranti, Robert Babuška, Javier Alonso-Mora