A review of mobile robot motion planning methods: from classical motion planning workflows to reinforcement learning-based architectures

L Dong, Z He, C Song, C Sun - Journal of Systems Engineering …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning is critical to realize the autonomous operation of mobile robots. As the
complexity and randomness of robot application scenarios increase, the planning capability …

A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection

L Lu, G Fasano, A Carrio, M Lei, H Bavle… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been confirmed as a powerful tool
for countless applications in nearly every industry, in which collision avoidance plays a vital …

Vision-only robot navigation in a neural radiance world

M Adamkiewicz, T Chen, A Caccavale… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for the
representation of natural, complex 3D scenes. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) represent …

isdf: Real-time neural signed distance fields for robot perception

J Ortiz, A Clegg, J Dong, E Sucar, D Novotny… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present iSDF, a continual learning system for real-time signed distance field (SDF)
reconstruction. Given a stream of posed depth images from a moving camera, it trains a …

Ego-planner: An esdf-free gradient-based local planner for quadrotors

X Zhou, Z Wang, H Ye, C Xu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gradient-based planners are widely used for quadrotor local planning, in which a Euclidean
Signed Distance Field (ESDF) is crucial for evaluating gradient magnitude and direction …

Raptor: Robust and perception-aware trajectory replanning for quadrotor fast flight

B Zhou, J Pan, F Gao, S Shen - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in trajectory replanning have enabled quadrotor to navigate autonomously
in unknown environments. However, high-speed navigation still remains a significant …

Fuel: Fast uav exploration using incremental frontier structure and hierarchical planning

B Zhou, Y Zhang, X Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration is a fundamental problem for various applications of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). Existing methods, however, were demonstrated to insufficient …

Teach-repeat-replan: A complete and robust system for aggressive flight in complex environments

F Gao, L Wang, B Zhou, X Zhou, J Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a complete and robust system for the aggressive flight of
autonomous quadrotors. The proposed system is built upon on the classical teach-and …

Locomotion policy guided traversability learning using volumetric representations of complex environments

J Frey, D Hoeller, S Khattak… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the progress in legged robotic locomotion, autonomous navigation in unknown
environments remains an open problem. Ideally, the navigation system utilizes the full …

Robust real-time uav replanning using guided gradient-based optimization and topological paths

B Zhou, F Gao, J Pan, S Shen - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gradient-based trajectory optimization (GTO) has gained wide popularity for quadrotor
trajectory replanning. However, it suffers from local minima, which is not only fatal to safety …