GASP: GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for Real-Time Collision-Aware Motion Generation with Latent Trajectory Sampling
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We present GASP, a GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for real-time, collision-aware joint-space motion generation in known environments. GASP combines a clamped B-spline trajectory parameterization with a convolutional residual neural network that predicts the free interior control points, while analytically inserted boundary control points enforce initial and final derivative constraints for collision-aware planning under non-stationary conditions. A conditional variational autoencoder samples multiple trajectory candidates, which are decoded and validated in parallel on the GPU, yielding a batched planner for collision-aware coupled joint-space motion with near-millisecond inference. We validate GASP as an online motion-generation module, where it achieves analytical-level success rates with high collision-aware feasibility and substantially reduces inference time relative to GPU-based trajectory optimization. We further deploy GASP as a reinforcement-learning reset planner in competitive robotic table tennis, matching the baseline return rate while roughly halving training-time collisions.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7196966132
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