This IEEE Control Systems issue includes one feature and application for control. The “Convex Optimization Trajectory Generation,” by Danylo Malyuta, Taylor P. Reynolds, Michael Szmuk, Thomas Lew, Riccardo Bonalli, Marco Pavone, Behçet Açikmes¸e, provides a tutorial on the optimization methods ...

A new progressive genetic algorithm (PGA) was developed for trajectory planning of a novel limbrobot. The proposed trajectory planning method can be applied to get an optimal joints trajectory from the initial to the end position and orientation. On the basis of the genetic algorithm a new kind of variable structure genetic algorithm (VSGA) is proposed to solve the problem of trajectory plannin...

A novel type of Ant Colony Algorithm (ACA) for the globally optimal trajectory planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is proposed in this paper. The parallelism and positive feedback of ACA is feasible in UAV trajectory planning under complex environments, but the basic ACA model has the limitation of stagnation, and easy to fall into local optimum. Hybrid improvement strategies for the basi...

The paper focuses on the problem of point-to-point trajectory planning for flexible redundant robot manipulators (FRM) in joint space. Compared with irredundant flexible manipulators, a FRM possesses additional possibilities during point-to-point trajectory planning due to its kinematics redundancy. A trajectory planning method to minimize vibration and/or executing time of a point-to-point mot...