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Rapidly-Iterating Grid-Based Near-Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning

arXiv:2609.22733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops the Rapidly-iterating kinoDynamic Grid (RDG) algorithm, an asymptotically near-optimal kinodynamic motion planning algorithm that produces high quality solutions through rapid iteration. The algorithm leverages a state space grid decomposition to perform node selection, dynamics propagation, and graph revision in constant time complexity with respect to the number of nodes in the trajectory tree. Through a covering ball sequenc

Published September 22, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2609.22733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops the Rapidly-iterating kinoDynamic Grid (RDG) algorithm, an asymptotically near-optimal kinodynamic motion planning algorithm that produces high quality solutions through rapid iteration. The algorithm leverages a state space grid decomposition to perform node selection, dynamics propagation, and graph revision in constant time complexity with respect to the number of nodes in the trajectory tree. Through a covering ball sequence induction proof, the algorithm is shown to be asymptotically near-optimal and probabilistically complete. Different subsystems of the algorithm are evaluated against common nearest-neighbor search-based methods at generating exploration bias. The RDG algorithm is evaluated through simulated trials in complex, kinodynamic motion planning problem environments up to 10 DOF relative to similar sparse, kinodynamic planning algorithms with optimality guarantees, SST and DIRT. The RDG algorithm outperforms both SST and DIRT in mean final solution quality by up to 104% and 40% respectively. Additionally, RDG maintained a 100% success rate, even on a 10-DOF test case where both SST and DIRT did not.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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