Probabilistic constraint tightening techniques for trajectory planning with predictive control

N Goulet, Q Wang, B Ayalew - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
In order for automated mobile vehicles to navigate in the real world with minimal collision
risks, it is necessary for their planning algorithms to consider uncertainties from …

Probabilistic trajectory optimization under uncertain path constraints for close proximity operations

C Jewison, DW Miller - Journal of guidance, control, and dynamics, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
Rendezvous and docking operations have been an integral component of manned
spaceflight from the beginning of the space age. However, there is now a growing interest in …

Evaluating trajectory collision probability through adaptive importance sampling for safe motion planning

E Schmerling, M Pavone - arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05399, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a tool for addressing a key component in many algorithms for planning
robot trajectories under uncertainty: evaluation of the safety of a robot whose actions are …

Chance-constrained optimal path planning with obstacles

L Blackmore, M Ono, BC Williams - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to plan trajectories to a specified goal that avoid obstacles. For
robust execution, we must take into account uncertainty, which arises due to uncertain …

Safe motion planning with environment uncertainty

A Thomas, F Mastrogiovanni, M Baglietto - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an approach for safe motion planning under robot state and environment
(obstacle and landmark location) uncertainties. To this end, we first develop an approach …

Robust sampling-based motion planning with asymptotic optimality guarantees

BD Luders, S Karaman, JP How - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and …, 2013 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper presents a novel sampling-based planner, CC-RRT*, which generates robust,
asymptotically optimal trajectories in real-time for linear Gaussian systems subject to …

Monte Carlo motion planning for robot trajectory optimization under uncertainty

L Janson, E Schmerling, M Pavone - Robotics Research: Volume 2, 2017 - Springer
This article presents a novel approach, named Monte Carlo Motion Planning (MCMP), to the
problem of motion planning under uncertainty, ie, to the problem of computing a low-cost …

Probabilistically safe motion planning to avoid dynamic obstacles with uncertain motion patterns

GS Aoude, BD Luders, JM Joseph, N Roy, JP How - Autonomous Robots, 2013 - Springer
This paper presents a real-time path planning algorithm that guarantees probabilistic
feasibility for autonomous robots with uncertain dynamics operating amidst one or more …

[HTML][HTML] Trajectory planning under environmental uncertainty with finite-sample safety guarantees

V Lefkopoulos, M Kamgarpour - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
We tackle the problem of trajectory planning in an environment comprised of a set of
obstacles with uncertain time-varying locations. The uncertainties are modeled using widely …

Confidence-aware motion prediction for real-time collision avoidance1

D Fridovich-Keil, A Bajcsy, JF Fisac… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
One of the most difficult challenges in robot motion planning is to account for the behavior of
other moving agents, such as humans. Commonly, practitioners employ predictive models to …