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  1. On Learning Optimal Corners in Orthogonal Partially Observable Cooperative Guard Art Galleries

    Oct 5, 2026Yassin Ben Mansour, Edwin MeriauxLong-Run Coverage GuaranteesPath Planning

  2. PB-STDG: A Prediction-Based Short-Term Decentralized Greedy Guidance Algorithm for a Drone Road System

    Oct 4, 2026Zhouyu Qu, Andreas Willig, Xiaobing WuPath Planning

    Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand · Wireless Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand

  3. Belief-Aware Multi-Agent Path Finding under Map Uncertainty

    Sep 30, 2026Viraj Parimi, Shao-Hung Chan, Han Zhang +2Multi-Agent Path FindingPath Planning

    Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 01239. · Symbotic Inc., Wilmington, MA 01887, USA

  4. Inspection-SPARS: Task-Oriented Sparse Roadmaps for Inspection Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Adir Morgan, Oren Salzman, Kiril SoloveyPath PlanningCollision-Free Trajectories

    The authors are with the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

  5. Calibrated Uncertainty for Informative Path Planning in Aquatic Environmental Monitoring

    Sep 28, 2026Samuel Yanes Luis, Alejandro Casado Pérez, Alejandro Mendoza Barrionuevo +3Calibrated UncertaintyPath Planning

    Department of Electronic Technology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain · Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

  6. Risk-Aware Motion Planning and Control under Unknown Dynamics with Hybrid Observations

    Sep 20, 2026Zhiquan Zhang, Melkior OrnikRobot PlanningPath Planning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, 61801 USA

  7. HOPHY: A Hierarchical Hypergraph Representation for Off-Road Path and Mission Planning

    Sep 17, 2026Pranay Meshram, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Prithvi Poddar +4Path PlanningHypergraphs

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.

  8. Customizable and Jointly Optimized Route Planning: A Deep Architecture Enabling Differentiable Shortest-Path Search

    Sep 17, 2026Rui Zhao, Chao Chen, Longfei Xu +4Shortest PathsPath Planning

    Alibaba Group Beijing, China · Alibaba Group Hangzhou, China

  9. WZPlanner: Safe End-to-End Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Work Zones

    Sep 16, 2026Nishad Sahu, Changzhong Qian, Guangzhou Cai +3Autonomous DrivingLidar

    Raj · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  10. PersonaPath: Towards Knowledge-Centric Personalized Learning Path Planning

    Sep 16, 2026Yu Liu, Zeming Liu, Tianle Zhang +6CurriculumPersona Consistency

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Beijing Institute of Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) +1

  11. VCTP: Vehicle-Conditioned Terrain Planning for Off-Road Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Akshay Naik, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, Dustin Nottage +1Vehicle DynamicsPath Planning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA: 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA: 2Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering · U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL, USA

  12. Learning to Optimize UAV Path Planning for Data Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Sep 15, 2026Sijie Ma, Zeyuan Ma, Weijia Cao +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    South China University of Technology · South China Normal University · Information Research Institute, CAS +2

  13. Global Path Planner with Multi-Model Switching

    Sep 14, 2026Pietro Gori, Francesco Iotti, Eduard Zelenay +5Path PlanningQuadrotor

    Centro di Ricerca “Enrico Piaggio” and the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universit`a di Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy · Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia · Panza Robotics, National Center of Robotics, Ilkovicova 3, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia +1

  14. A Hierarchical Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Unknown Environments

    Sep 14, 2026Zongyuan Shen, Haodong Liu, Gao Wang +4Path PlanningDynamic Environments

    College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

  15. From Connectivity to Rewards: Dense Reward Learning with Directed State Graphs

    Sep 11, 2026Shuyuan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xiao-Wen Chang +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningPath Planning

    School of Computer Science, McGill University Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Google DeepMind, CIFAR Fellow

  16. TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

    Sep 8, 2026Anqi Li, Yuxin Chen, Zhaobo Li +4Vision-Language NavigationDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions

    University of California, Berkeley · Peking University · Tsinghua University +2

  17. Coverage Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators using Generalized Spanning Trees

    Sep 8, 2026Raksi Kopo, Kostas J. KyriakopoulosPath PlanningRobotic Manipulator

    Center for AI & Robotics (CAIR) and the Electrical Eng. Program, Engineering Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  18. Corner Cases: Headland Coverage Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Arable Farming

    Sep 3, 2026Riikka Soitinaho, Timo OksanenPath PlanningPrecision Agriculture

    Technical University of Munich, Germany; Chair of Agrimechatronics; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)

  19. Local Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for an Omnicopter Platform

    Sep 3, 2026Mikolaj Helinski, Spilios Theodoulis, Mahmoud Hamandi +3QuadrotorUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  20. Neural-Primitive: An Efficient End-to-end Local Planner with Primitive-based Imitation Learning for Autonomous Flight

    Aug 21, 2026Zhitao Liu, Guangtong Xu, Zihan Wang +3Imitation LearningPath Planning

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Huzhou Institute, Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China. · Institute of Systems Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621999, China. +3

  21. Whole-Body Planning for Humanoids Navigating Confined Spaces via Self-Collision Avoidance References

    Aug 10, 2026Carlos Gonzalez, Luis SentisCollision-Free TrajectoriesFull-Body Humanoid Control

    Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, TX 78712, USA.

  22. AOC-CBS: Anytime-Optimal Continuous-time Conflict-Based Search for Generalised Multi-Agent Path Finding

    Aug 8, 2026Alvin Combrink, Sabino Francesco Roselli, Martin FabianMulti-Agent Path FindingPath Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

  23. PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds

    Aug 6, 2026Kunal S. Narkhede, Abhijeet M. Kulkarni, Guoquan Huang +1Path PlanningPoint Clouds

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA · Robotics Institute, Athena Research Center, Marousi, Greece; School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; HERON–Center of Excellence in Robotics, Athens, Greece

  24. SCOPE: Field-of-View-Aware Path Planning in Unknown 3D Environments via Safety-Volume Certification

    Aug 5, 2026Junbin Yuan, Muqing Cao, Yunwoo Lee +2Path Planning3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA · Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 USA

  25. Flying over The Uncertain Nature (FORTUNE): Intelligent and Humanistic 3D Path Planning for Low-Altitude Collaboration

    Aug 4, 2026Minghui Liwang, Wenhan Jia, Xinlei Yi +3Multi-UavPath Planning

  26. StochSIPP: Safe Interval Path Planning in Stochastic Dynamic Environments

    Aug 1, 2026Ajith Kemisetti, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Yoonchang SungPath PlanningPlanning

    The University of Texas at Austin · Ben Gurion University of the Negev · Nanyang Technological University

  27. Risk-Aware Motion Planning with Learned Trajectory Primitives and Probabilistic Safety Assessment

    Jul 29, 2026Marc Kaufeld, Dian Zhuang, Johannes BetzMotion PlanningPath Planning

    Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany

  28. Hybrid Artificial Potential Fields and Spatio-Temporal Transformers for Real-Time AUV Path Planning

    Jul 27, 2026Khadija Rais, Abdelmadjid Benmachiche, Imene SoualmiaAutonomous Underwater VehiclesPath Planning

    Laboratory of Mathematics, Informatics and Systems (LAMIS), Echahid Cheikh Larbi Tebessi University, T´ebessa, Algeria · Department of Computer Science, LIMA Laboratory, Chadli Bendjedid University, El-Tarf, Algeria

  29. Model Predictive Planner for UAV Navigation in Non-Convex Air Corridors

    Jul 27, 2026Henrique Silva, Marcelo A. Santos, Guilherme V. RaffoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil · Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, BG, Italy · Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  30. Quality-Adaptive Multi-UAV 3D Reconstruction with Sparse Workload Redistribution

    Jul 27, 2026Benjamin Sportich, Kenza Boubakri, Olivier Simonin +1Multi-Uav3D Reconstruction

    Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI, 69621 Villeurbanne, France.

  31. Key-Interval A*: Accelerating Grid Pathfinding via Structural Abstraction

    Jul 25, 2026Taiquan SuiShortest PathsGrid

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  32. Learning Spatiotemporal Decision Priors for Efficient Path Planning under Partial Observability

    Jul 24, 2026Yi Liu, Hongda Zhang, Leyao Zou +7Path PlanningPartial Observability

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China · School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China · Department of Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, 23529, VA, USA

  33. An Indoor Navigation System for the Visually Impaired based on UWB Positioning and D* Lite Path Planning Algorithm

    Jul 18, 2026Thanh C. Vo, Dong LT. Tran, Huy HM. Le +4Autonomous NavigationPath Planning

    Viện Công nghệ Kỹ thuật Hàng không Vũ trụ, Đại học Duy Tân, Đà Nẵng

  34. Minimum Time Dubins Airplane Paths with Asymmetric Climb Rates

    Jul 17, 2026Jaeyoung Lim, Giuseppe LoiannoPath PlanningLow-Latency Latent Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  35. Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions

    Jul 12, 2026Zongyuan Shen, Shalabh Gupta, Shancheng Zhao +6Path PlanningMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. +3

  36. From Patterns to Maze Structures: SMT-Based Path Synthesis and 2D/3D Construction

    Jul 8, 2026Shengyi WangMaze TaskSatisfiability

    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, China

  37. MP-MPPI: A Motion Primitive Guided Sampling-Based Optimizer for Model Predictive Control

    Jul 7, 2026Marlon Mathisen, Aksel Vaaler, Olav Egeland +1Model Predictive Path IntegralModel Predictive Control

    *Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norway

  38. Integrated Graph Search and Model Predictive Control for Smooth and Efficient Path Planning in Autonomous Vehicles

    Jul 5, 2026Duc-Tien Bui, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Hung Duy Nguyen +3Path PlanningVehicle Dynamics

    Institute of Automotive Engineering, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria · Drone Engineering, University of Applied Science Kufstein Tirol, Austria · Automation and Control Institute (ACIN), Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  39. Autonomous UAV Route Planning for Coverage Maximization in Environmental Monitoring: A Systematic Literature Review

    Jul 3, 2026Sebastian Jouannet-Contreras, Carola Figueroa-FloresUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    Master Program in Computer Science Universidad del Bío-Bío Chillán, Chile · Dept. of Computer Science and Information Technology Universidad del Bío-Bío Chillán, Chile

  40. Path planning for unmanned naval surface vehicles

    Jul 2, 2026Daniel G. SchwartzPath PlanningObstacle Avoidance

    Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA

  41. Path Planning in Physically Viable World Models

    Jul 1, 2026Su Ann Low, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao, Xingjian Li +3Path PlanningRobot Systems

    The University of Texas at Austin

  42. Dual-Informed Vertical Expansion for Multi-Objective Node Selection in Anytime Conflict-Based Search

    Jun 30, 2026Willem van Osselaer, Jiarui Li, Meshal Alharbi +1Multi-Agent Path FindingPath Planning

    Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  43. RRT-Rope: A deterministic shortening approach for fast near-optimal path planning in large-scale uncluttered 3D environments

    Jun 30, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensPath PlanningUnderground Mines

    Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  44. Optimal any-angle path planning in static and dynamic environments

    Jun 30, 2026Yiyuan Zou, Clark BorstPath PlanningPlanning

    Control and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  45. Solution space path planning for supporting en-route air traffic control

    Jun 30, 2026Yiyuan Zou, Wenying Lyu, Clark BorstAir Traffic ControlPath Planning

    Control and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  46. TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensPath PlanningAerial Robots

    Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  47. MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    the Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  48. Large-Scale Tunnel Air-Ground Collaboration With FLISP: Fast LiDAR-IMU Synchronized Path Planner

    Jun 24, 2026Fenghe Guo, Runjie Shen, Chenyang Sun +4Robust Lidar-Inertial OdometryMulti-Uav

    Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai 201210, China · State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai 201210, China · College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

  49. CKM-Driven Communication-Aware UAV Intelligent Trajectory Optimization for Urban Inspection

    Jun 23, 2026Yang Xiaomeng, Jia Ziye, Zhu Qiuming +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    The Key Laboratory of Dynamic Cognitive System of Electromagnetic Spectrum Space, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 211106, China

  50. Varying Bundle Size Reactive Multi-Task Assignment using Selective Cost Estimation for Multi-Agent Systems

    Jun 23, 2026Niklas Dahlquist, Shridhar Velhal, George NikolakopoulosMulti-Robot SystemsFirst-Price Auctions

    Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, SE-971 87 Sweden

  51. FPAS: Frontier-Based Path Planning with Adaptive Sampling for Large-Scale Unknown Environments

    Jun 22, 2026Jinwoo Choi, Yeonkyu Lee, Jung-Taak Kim +2Path PlanningAdaptive Sampling

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  52. Semantic-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown Indoor Environments

    Jun 21, 2026Duc-Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Minh Do, Xiem HoangVan +1Autonomous NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, 10000, Hanoi, Vietnam. · School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, 923-1211, Ishikawa, Japan.

  53. Increasing Resilience of Continuum Robots via Motion Planning Algorithms

    Jun 18, 2026Oxana Shamilyan, Ievgen Kabin, Zoya Dyka +2Motion PlanningPath Planning

    1* IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany · BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany · Technical Center, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

  54. Discrete Autoregressive Transformer for Generative Mechanism Synthesis

    Jun 16, 2026Anar Nurizada, Anurag PurwarSynthesisAutoregressive Transformers

    Computer-Aided Design and Innovation Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2300, USA

  55. Intermittent Strategic Cooperation of Two Selfish Agents on Graphs

    Jun 15, 2026Itay Shedlezki, Noa AgmonNash EquilibriumCooperation

    Bar-Ilan University · Ramat Gan, Israel

  56. DIFF-IPPO: Diffusion-Based Informative Path Planning with Open-Vocabulary Belief Maps

    Jun 15, 2026Sausar Karaf, Oleg Sautenkov, Mikhail Martynov +1Diffusion PlanningPath Planning

    CDE, Skoltech, Bolshoy Boulevard, 30, bld. 1, Moscow 121205, Russia

  57. Learning Unions of Convex Sets via Invertible Latent Decomposition for Path Planning

    Jun 10, 2026Taerim Yoon, Dongho Kang, Kisang Park +3Collision-Free TrajectoriesPath Planning

    Korea University · ETH Zurich

  58. Explore From Sketch: Accelerating UAV Exploration in Large-scale Environments with Prior Maps

    Jun 10, 2026Tiancheng Lai, Yuman Gao, Xiangyu Li +8Path PlanningPoint Cloud Registration

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Huzhou Institute, Zhejiang University, and Huzhou Key Laboratory of Autonomous System, Huzhou 313000, China. · Differential Robotics Technology Company, Hangzhou 311100, China. +1

  59. AgniNav: Configuration-Driven Cross-Embodiment Local Planning for Robot Navigation

    Jun 9, 2026Tianhao Zang, Siwei Cheng, Haidong Huang +2Robot NavigationNavigation

    Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK · College of Information Science and Technology, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, P. R. China. +3

  60. FlexPath: Learned Semantic Path Priors for Image-Based Planning

    Jun 8, 2026Taehyoung Kim, Tim Schoenbrod, David Eckel +1Path PlanningShortest Paths

    Fraunhofer IVI · Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt