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Knut Åkesson

5 accepted papers

2026

Proactive Local-Minima-Free Robot Navigation: Blending Motion Prediction With Safe Control

RA-L 2026

This work addresses the challenge of safe and efficient mobile robot navigation in complex dynamic environments with concave moving obstacles. Reactive safe controllers like Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) design obstacle avoidance strategies based only on the current states of the obstacles, riski

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Future-Oriented Navigation: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance With One-Shot Energy-Based Multimodal Motion Prediction

RA-L 2025

This paper proposes an integrated approach for the safe and efficient control of mobile robots in dynamic and uncertain environments. The approach consists of two key steps: one-shot multimodal motion prediction to anticipate motions of dynamic obstacles and model predictive control to incorporate t

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2025

Gradient Field-Based Dynamic Window Approach for Collision Avoidance in Complex Environments

IROS 2025

For safe and flexible navigation in multi-robot systems, this paper presents an enhanced and predictive sampling-based trajectory planning approach in complex environments, the Gradient Field-based Dynamic Window Approach (GF-DWA). Building upon the dynamic window approach, the proposed method utili

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2024

Bird’s-Eye-View Trajectory Planning of Multiple Robots using Continuous Deep Reinforcement Learning and Model Predictive Control

IROS 2024poster

Efficient motion planning and control for multiple mobile robots in industrial automation and indoor logistics face challenges such as trajectory generation and collision avoidance in complex environments. We propose a hybrid, sequential method combining Bird’s-Eye-View vision-based continuous Deep…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2023

Prescient Collision-Free Navigation of Mobile Robots With Iterative Multimodal Motion Prediction of Dynamic Obstacles

RA-L 2023

To explore safe interactions between a mobile robot and dynamic obstacles, this letter presents a comprehensive approach to collision-free navigation in dynamic indoor environments. The approach integrates Multimodal Motion Predictions (MMPs) of dynamic obstacles with predictive control for obstacle

Cited by 14SourceScholar