...Jiamei Lin; Bo Li; Wei Tian Purpose To address the inherent nondeterminism and lack of verifiability of learning- or sampling-based path planning methods in safety-critical dual-robot cooperative manufacturing, this paper aims to develop a deterministic and decoupled kinematic framework...

...Xing Zhou; Lin Li; Xinglong Zhang; Songchang Jin; Xin Xu; Dianxi Shi; Huaimin Wang Purpose This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of Dubins robot path planning, which has become increasingly important in mobile robotics, autonomous vehicles and industrial applications...

...Yichen Huang; Jiadong Jin; Yuhao Sun; Andong Liu; Wen-An Zhang; Hongjie Ni Purpose As an efficient path planning algorithm, MPPI has received significant attention in the field of path tracking and planning for mobile robots. However, traditional MPPI tends to fall into local minima under...

.... © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Corresponding author Bingtuan Gao gaobingtuan@seu.edu.cn 29 04 2025 16 07 2025 07 08 2025 14 09 2025 14 09 2025 Mobile manipulator Path planning Robot...

...Sameer Agrawal; Bhumeshwar Patle; Sudarshan Sanap Purpose This paper aims to develop efficient path-planning technique for a single and multiple drones navigating in complex indoor environments filled with obstacles. With the increasing presence of drones in different domains, there should...

... the grinding path. Based on the above problems, the purpose of this study is to propose an online path planning method for LHDDs grinding using three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. Design/methodology/approach The robotic grinding system is composed of an industrial robot system, a force-controlled grinding...

...-wheeled robots to traverse longitudinal gullies by stepping. This method provides a new way to solve problems such as poor safety and poor passability of wheeled robots in rugged environments. It provides a theoretical basis for the path planning of robots in more complex environments. It has important...

.... Findings According to market trends, floor-cleaning robots dominate other cleaning areas. This review mainly focuses on five attributes of floor-cleaning robots: design and development of AFCR, complete coverage path planning, the application of machine learning (ML)/deep learning (DL), optimisation...

...Yangmin Xie; Qiaoni Yang; Rui Zhou; Zhiyan Cao; Hang Shi Purpose Fast obstacle avoidance path planning is a challenging task for multijoint robots navigating through cluttered workspaces. This paper aims to address this issue by proposing an improved path-planning method based on the distorted...

... and mapping, path planning, target recognition and signal processing, admittance control. This paper also introduces a path planning method designed to adapt to the substation environment. In addition, a flexible end effector is designed for full contact between the probe and the device. Findings...

... and ranging (LiDAR) and a ultra-wideband (UWB) anchor. For path planning and obstacle avoidance, a modified timed-elastic-bands (TEB) algorithm is introduced. Findings Compared to the UWB-only method, where only UWB is used to locate the target person, the proposed ILTP method in this paper reduces...

...Yong Fu; Kun Chen; Li He; Hui Tan Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address two major challenges faced by robotic fish when operating in underwater environments: insufficient path planning capabilities and difficulties in avoiding dynamic obstacles. To achieve this, a method is proposed...

...Andong Liu; Yawen Zhang; Jiayun Fu; Yuankun Yan; Wen-An Zhang Purpose In response to the issue of traditional algorithms often falling into local minima or failing to find feasible solutions in manipulator path planning. The purpose of this paper is to propose a 3D artificial moment method (3D-AMM...

...), forcing the base version of the planner to reassess its validity (Kingston et al., 2018). Path planning Autonomous robots where FK() denotes the positive kinematics of the robot system. At this point the motion planning problem under the end-effector can be defined...

...Xiaoqing Zhang; Genliang Xiong; Peng Yin; Yanfeng Gao; Yan Feng Purpose To ensure the motion attitude and stable contact force of massage robot working on unknown human tissue environment, this study aims to propose a robotic system for autonomous massage path planning and stable interaction...

... damage. Design/methodology/approach This study introduces the system units of the apple-picking robot prototype, proposes a method to determine the apple-picking direction via 3D point cloud data and optimizes the path planning method according to the calculated picking direction. Findings After...

... the evaluation function mechanism and broadens the navigation strategy of DWA at a lower computational cost. After real machine verification, the algorithm has a high comprehensive performance based on real environment and provides a new idea for local path planning methods. (1) { x ( t + 1 ) = x...

...: a path planning method based on wall positions is introduced to ensure stable tracking of the target even when it is obscured due to target turns; improvements are made to the random sample consensus (RANSAC) algorithm, enhancing its accuracy in calculating wall positions. The system is integrated...

...Cheng Wang; Haibo Xie; Huayong Yang Purpose This paper aims to present an iterative path-following method with joint limits to solve the problem of large computation cost, movement exceeding joint limits and poor path-following accuracy for the path planning of hyper-redundant snake-like...

.... The distance between two laser spots is the key sensitivity factor. Figure 4 Analysis of incident angle of the laser sources at A © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Automotive Coating robot Manual teaching Path planning...