Journal and conference papers, 2017 to 2026

Publications¶

Papers on motion planning, safe navigation, predictive control and perception.

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Journal articles¶

2026Motion planning

Generating Diverse Trajectories Using Roadmap Search and Sampling-Based Motion Planning

E. Plaku, A. Çela, E. Plaku

IEEE Access, May 2026

DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.11506360

BibTeX

@article{plaku_2026_diverse,
  author    = {E. Plaku and A. Çela and E. Plaku},
  title     = {Generating Diverse Trajectories Using Roadmap Search and Sampling-Based Motion Planning},
  journal   = {IEEE Access},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.11506360}
}

2026Risk-aware planning

Semantic-Aware Graphs for Safe Path Planning in Urban Driving Environments

E. Plaku

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 2026

DOI 10.1007/s12555-026-00116-4

BibTeX

@article{plaku_2026_semantic,
  author    = {E. Plaku},
  title     = {Semantic-Aware Graphs for Safe Path Planning in Urban Driving Environments},
  journal   = {International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.1007/s12555-026-00116-4}
}

2024Risk-aware planning

Enhancing Robot Navigation: Integrating Safety Zones into Path Planning

E. Plaku, A. Çela, E. Plaku

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 2024

BibTeX

@article{plaku_2024_safety_zones,
  author    = {E. Plaku and A. Çela and E. Plaku},
  title     = {Enhancing Robot Navigation: Integrating Safety Zones into Path Planning},
  journal   = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer},
  year      = {2024}
}

2018Motion planning

Clearance-Driven Motion Planning for Mobile Agents with Differential Constraints

E. Plaku, E. Plaku, P. Simari

Robotica, Cambridge University Press, 2018

BibTeX

@article{plaku_2018_clearance,
  author    = {E. Plaku and E. Plaku and P. Simari},
  title     = {Clearance-Driven Motion Planning for Mobile Agents with Differential Constraints},
  journal   = {Robotica, Cambridge University Press},
  year      = {2018}
}

2017Motion planning

Direct Path Superfacets: An Intermediate Representation for Motion Planning

E. Plaku, E. Plaku, P. Simari

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2017

BibTeX

@article{plaku_2017_superfacets,
  author    = {E. Plaku and E. Plaku and P. Simari},
  title     = {Direct Path Superfacets: An Intermediate Representation for Motion Planning},
  journal   = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  year      = {2017}
}

Conference papers¶

2026Risk-aware planning

Safe Urban Route Planning via Semantic Graphs and Neural Cost Shaping

E. Plaku, G. Lici, S.-I. Niculescu, A. Çela

34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2026

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2026_urban_route,
  author    = {E. Plaku and G. Lici and S.-I. Niculescu and A. Çela},
  title     = {Safe Urban Route Planning via Semantic Graphs and Neural Cost Shaping},
  booktitle = {34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)},
  year      = {2026}
}

2026Predictive control

An Adaptive-Horizon Model Predictive Control Approach for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

G. Lici, E. Plaku, S.-I. Niculescu, A. Çela

34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2026

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lici_2026_adaptive_mpc,
  author    = {G. Lici and E. Plaku and S.-I. Niculescu and A. Çela},
  title     = {An Adaptive-Horizon Model Predictive Control Approach for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments},
  booktitle = {34th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)},
  year      = {2026}
}

2025Motion planning

Motion Planning with Large Language Models: Language-to-Paths Guidance over Superfacets

E. Plaku

3rd International Conference on Information Technologies and Educational Engineering (ICITEE), 2025

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2025_llm_paths,
  author    = {E. Plaku},
  title     = {Motion Planning with Large Language Models: Language-to-Paths Guidance over Superfacets},
  booktitle = {3rd International Conference on Information Technologies and Educational Engineering (ICITEE)},
  year      = {2025}
}

2024Perception

Safety Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Traffic Sign Recognition, Dynamic Object Detection, and Semantic Segmentation

E. Plaku, A. Çela, N. Civici

International Conference on Computing, Networking, Telecommunications and Smart Applications (CoNTESA), pp. 5–10, Dec 2024

DOI 10.1109/CoNTESA64738.2024.10891271

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2024_safety_analysis,
  author    = {E. Plaku and A. Çela and N. Civici},
  title     = {Safety Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Using Traffic Sign Recognition, Dynamic Object Detection, and Semantic Segmentation},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computing, Networking, Telecommunications and Smart Applications (CoNTESA)},
  year      = {2024},
  pages     = {5--10},
  doi       = {10.1109/CoNTESA64738.2024.10891271}
}

2024Applied machine learning

A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Albanian News Article Title Classification

E. Plaku, K. Jahaj, A. Çela, N. Civici

18th International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), 2024

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2024_albanian_news,
  author    = {E. Plaku and K. Jahaj and A. Çela and N. Civici},
  title     = {A Machine Learning Framework for Automated Albanian News Article Title Classification},
  booktitle = {18th International Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA)},
  year      = {2024}
}

2023Risk-aware planning

Robot Path Planning with Safety Zones

E. Plaku, A. Çela, E. Plaku

20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2023

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2023_safety_zones,
  author    = {E. Plaku and A. Çela and E. Plaku},
  title     = {Robot Path Planning with Safety Zones},
  booktitle = {20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO)},
  year      = {2023}
}

2017Motion planning

Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Computing Navigation Actions From Demonstrations

E. Plaku

International Conference on Computing, Information Technology and Business Applications, 2017

BibTeX

@inproceedings{plaku_2017_irl,
  author    = {E. Plaku},
  title     = {Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Computing Navigation Actions From Demonstrations},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computing, Information Technology and Business Applications},
  year      = {2017}
}

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