arXiv:2609.22974v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the Minimum Obstacle Displacement Planning problem from a robot motion planning perspective. The problem involves deter...
By Antony Thomas, Giulio Ferro, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Michela Robba, Marco Baglietto
arXiv:2608.21395v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: NoMaD [31] is a learned vision-navigation policy that unifies goal-conditioned navigation and exploration in a single goal-masked diffusion policy. I...
By Blossom Treesa Bastian, Keerthi S. Shetty, Manish Kolachalam, Rani Malhotra, Ashish Dutta
The paper presents DORA, an online learning algorithm for robot navigation that uses Dijkstra’s algorithm as an exact planning engine under a weaker condition than usual causality—specifically, nonnegativity of a reduced cost on a determinized map. DORA calls a shortest‑path oracle a fixed number of times per episode, avoids estimating transition kernels, and incorporates a logarithmic survival weight to keep contact probabilities with dynamic obstacles within a budget. Experiments on grid‑world, directional drilling, and drone surveillance benchmarks show that DORA matches optimistic value iteration with the true transition kernel while performing 4.5 to 19.3 times less planner work, reduces contacts by a factor of seventeen compared to determinize‑and‑replan, and maintains contact rates within wide budget ranges.
By Mansur M. Arief, Ali Akarma, Ahmad Alfan Alfian Irfan
Mobile robots that operate in side by side with humans and critical facilities must reach their goals at low cost, despite often unknown true traversal costs of the map apriori and imperfect actuation...
The paper investigates how inaccuracies in pretrained occupancy networks affect active mapping robots that select camera viewpoints to reconstruct unknown 3D scenes. By fixing the planner and varying the occupancy representation—ranging from no completion to ground‑truth occupancy—the authors find that correcting false positives or false negatives alone does not reliably improve coverage, highlighting a disconnect between occupancy accuracy and planning performance. They propose a dynamic filtering strategy that retains predictions in unexplored space while suppressing unsupported occupancy based on online observations, which preliminarily shows it can steer viewpoint selection toward reachable surfaces that would otherwise remain unseen.
By Jiahui Zhang, Gongbo Liang, Yu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 00064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As technology advances, many path-planning algorithms have been proposed for Air Traffic Management, yet their operational adoption in tactical control remains limited, revealing a misalignment between algorithmic design priorities and air traffic controllers' needs.
By Yiyuan Zou, Wenying Lyu, Clark Borst