The paper presents a training-free diffusion-based motion planner that replaces learned global trajectory scores with analytical local scores derived from obstacle, smoothness, velocity, and inter-agent feasibility terms. By reconstructing trajectory scores through local interactions between neighboring waypoints and nearby constraints, the method decomposes the denoising process while preserving the optimization structure of classical trajectory methods. Experiments demonstrate that this approach generates smooth, feasible trajectories for large multi-agent tasks in complex environments quickly, outperforming learning-based and optimization baselines without requiring training data.
By Michael Y. Fatemi, Jinhao Liang, Ferdinando Fioretto
AegisFlow is a training‑free framework that guides generative models, such as diffusion and flow matching, along safe paths by formulating the problem as a global optimal control task. It incorporates a time‑varying barrier function into the cost functional, enabling non‑myopic enforcement of constraints throughout the entire generative trajectory. Experiments show that AegisFlow outperforms existing methods in text‑guided image manipulation and robotic planning, achieving a better balance between target alignment and constraint satisfaction.
By Kunpeng Liu, Boshi Zhang, Keyou You
arXiv:2510. 09204v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother trajectories, especially while planning in tight spaces.
By Simon Idoko, Prajyot Jadhav, Arun Kumar Singh
UniConFlow is a unified constrained flow‑matching framework that generates robot trajectories while systematically handling both equality and inequality constraints such as collision avoidance, actuation limits, and dynamic consistency. It introduces a prescribed‑time zeroing function to shape a time‑varying guidance field during inference, and employs a violation‑segment extraction protocol and trajectory compression to address computational challenges in long‑horizon, high‑dimensional planning. Experiments on a double inverted pendulum, a real‑to‑sim car racing task, and a sim‑to‑real manipulation task show that UniConFlow outperforms state‑of‑the‑art generative planners and conventional optimization baselines on certified motion planning metrics like safety, kinodynamic consistency, and action feasibility.
By Zewen Yang, Xiaobing Dai, Dian Yu, Zhijun Li, Majid Khadiv, Sandra Hirche, Sami Haddadin
arXiv:2604. 10169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trajectory prediction is a key component of autonomous driving systems because future motions directly affect collision checking, behavior planning, and control.
By Wenchang Duan, Zhenguo Gao, Jinguo Xian, Yi Shi
arXiv:2509. 23960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Co-optimizing safety and performance in large-scale multi-agent systems remains a fundamental challenge.
By Manan Tayal, Aditya Singh, Shishir Kolathaya, Somil Bansal
arXiv:2608. 05588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (LMAPF) requires repeatedly planning collision-free paths for agents that continuously receive new goals upon reaching their current ones.
By He Jiang, Jingtian Yan, Yulun Zhang, Yimin Tang, Tanishq Duhan, Rishi Veerapaneni, Guillaume Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li
arXiv:2607. 10630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust motion planning in dense traffic requires autonomous vehicles to interact in rare and safety-critical scenarios that are underrepresented in naturalistic driving data.
By Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He, Yihong Tang, Jian Sun, Wei Ma
arXiv:2607. 16177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a promising feedback control strategy for nonlinear and complex dynamical systems.
By Matteo Tomasetto, Nicol\`o Botteghi, Gabriele Bruni, Andrea Manzoni
The paper presents a single pretrained diffusion traffic model that serves both as an ego motion planner and as a controllable generator of safety‑critical scenarios for autonomous driving. It introduces a Single‑Stream Dual‑Stream diffusion‑transformer decoder (SSDS) that fuses scene context via joint attention, improving closed‑loop performance on the nuPlan benchmark, and a training‑free guidance scheme called Decoupled Annealing Posterior Sampling with Energy (DAPSE) that injects arbitrary energy functions at inference time. Using the same model, the authors generate realistic long‑tail driving interactions—such as aggressive cut‑ins and lead‑vehicle braking—through inference‑time guidance, exposing failure modes in black‑box planners that standard benchmarks miss.
By Arka Pal, Rajesh Kumar, Hannes Eriksson, R\'emi Lacombe, Arvid Laveno Ling, Ankit Gupta, Maciej Wozniak
arXiv:2608.28995v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World models let robots imagine possible futures, but exploiting this capability for real-time control is bottlenecked by a representation misalignme...
By Mohammad Nazeri, Alexandyr Card, Samira Huber, Anuj Pokhrel, Yujun Wang, Ruben Hammele, Daeun Song, S\"oren Pirk, Xuesu Xiao
arXiv:2610.16522v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Safe robot navigation in unknown, dynamic environments requires more than geometric collision checking: a robot still far from an obstacle ma...
By Bojan Deraji\'c