...Abhijit Mahapatro; Dayal Ramakrushna Parhi; Sujeet Kumar Patro Purpose Path planning with obstacle avoidance is crucial for navigating an autonomous underwater vehicle ( AUV ) in an unknown and obstacle-rich three-dimensional space. This paper aims to develop an optimized obstacle-free path...

...Raj Kumar Singh; Kuldeep Singh Nagla Purpose This research aims to enhance the traditional A* algorithm to improve path planning performance in robotics by focusing on generating smoother, shorter and more efficient paths. The key objectives include minimizing path length, reducing sharp turns...

...Jiulong Wang; Jian Di; Yu Kang; Shaofeng Chen; Chenxu Zhang; Haibo Ji Purpose Rendezvous between fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and multi-rotor UAVs is a critical issue in multi-rotor UAV assisted take-off and landing technology. Most existing path planning studies lack analysis...

... a conflict-free path planning strategy to enhance overall efficiency and system stability. Design/methodology/approach The warehouse is modeled as a uniform cellular grid, with AGVs represented as dynamic cells possessing state attributes. Task sequencing is optimized via dynamic programming based...

...Sijie Tong; Qingchen Liu; Qichao Ma; Jiahu Qin Purpose This paper aims to address the safety concerns of path-planning algorithms in dynamic obstacle warehouse environments. It proposes a method that uses improved artificial potential fields (IAPF) as expert knowledge for an improved deep...

...Liu Xiangde; Ma Hao; Zhang Yi; Wang Wei Purpose With the development of technology, the application scenarios of mobile robots are becoming more and more extensive, accompanied by a variety of application scenarios suitable and safe path planning algorithms are indispensable for mobile robots...

... Liu can be contacted at: liuxj@zju.edu.cn 13 09 2023 07 12 2023 12 01 2024 16 01 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Path planning Fused deposition molding Interference detection Multiorientation...

... to select the next best location in path planning. Findings The semantic information is successfully modelled and propagated, which can represent the belief of finding object. The belief criteria decision-making (BCDM) approach is evaluated in both Gazebo simulation platform and physical experiments...

... by triangular meshing. Then, the geodesic curve method is applied for local path planning. Finally, the subsurface trajectory combination optimization problem is modeled as a GTSP problem and solved by the ant colony algorithm, where the evaluation scores and the uniform design method are used to determine...

..., hardware energy consumption, optimization in path planning and scheduling methods, and to suggest future research directions. Design/methodology/approach The systematic literature review (SLR) identified 244 papers for analysis. Research articles published from 2010 onwards were searched in databases...

...Xunlei Shi; Qingyuan Wu; Jianjian Deng; Ken Chen; Jiwen Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a strategy for the final assembly of helicopter fuselage with weak rigidity parts and mismatched jointing butt ends. Design/methodology/approach The strategy is based on path planning...

... for robotic grasp-less manipulation, nonprehensile manipulation, manipulation with contact, etc. Grippers Robotics Path planning Handling This paper studies using a mobile manipulator to manipulate objects beyond the robot’s maximum payload. Figure 1 exemplifies how a human manipulates a large...

... environment is the current trending topic in industrial robotics. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robotics Path planning In the literature, numerous approaches are available for solving the trajectory planning problems...

...Lin Zhang; Yingjie Zhang; Manni Zeng; Yangfan Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to put forward a path planning method in complex environments containing dynamic obstacles, which improves the performance of the traditional A* algorithm, this method can plan the optimal path in a short running...

... the most effective layout for locating the proposed turning point. To compare the performance of path planning strategies, discrete event simulation is used. To extract the strategies having various specifications, Delphi method integrated with brain storming of experts is used. The operational...

...Yandong Liu; Dong Han; Lujia Wang; Cheng-Zhong Xu Purpose With the rapid development of e-commerce, logistics demand is increasing day by day. The modern warehousing with a multi-agent system as the core comes into being. This paper aims to study the task allocation and path-planning (TAPP...

...-/yaw direction. Path planning algorithm under different constraints is proposed for logistics robot to obey the traffic rules of pallet logistics. Findings Compared with the traditional forklift vehicles, logistics robot has the advantages of more compact structure and higher expandability. It can...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robotics Path planning Man machine interface (MMI) Cooperative robots Teaching by demonstration (TbD) is a widely used approach for robots to acquire new motion skills from humans (Billard et al., 2008). Traditionally, TbD methods have been...

... 01 03 2018 09 05 2018 27 05 2018 19 10 2018 23 10 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Path planning Assembly dimensions Dimension model Shortest-path spanning tree National Natural Science...

...Du Lin; Bo Shen; Yurong Liu; Fuad E. Alsaadi; Ahmed Alsaedi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the performance of the genetic algorithm-based compliant robot path planning (GACRPP) in complex dynamic environment by proposing an improved bidirectional rapidly exploring random tree (Bi...