Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have developed a class of fast and efficient "motion planning" algorithms which can think like human beings and enable autonomous aerial ...

The act of picking up a coffee cup from a table, despite being relatively simple for a human being, actually involves extremely complex calculations as we spontaneously plan a trajectory around ...

Topological complexity is a central concept that bridges the abstract methodologies of algebraic topology with the practical challenges of robot motion planning. It provides a numerical invariant that ...

According to the team, the algorithms have been developed on a novel notion of 'Generalised Shape Expansion' (GSE) that enables planning for a safe and dynamically feasible trajectory for autonomous ...

Drones equipped with these algorithms could be extremely useful in disaster management and response situations Satadal Ghosh, an assistant professor at IIT Madras' Department of Aerospace Engineering, ...