| ACO | Ant Colony Optimizer |
| AIT* | Adaptively Informed Tree |
| APF | Artificial Potential Fields |
| ABIT* | Advanced Batch Informed Trees |
| BIT* | Batch Informed Trees |
| D* | Dynamic A* |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Map |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DP | Dynamic Programming |
| DPP | Dynamic Programming Principle |
| DWA | Dynamic Window Approach |
| FIM | Fast Iterative Method |
| FMM | Fast Marching Method |
| FMT* | Fast Marching Tree |
| FMS | Fast Marching Square |
| FSM | Fast Sweeping Method |
| FM* | Heuristic Fast Marching |
| GMT* | Group Marching Tree |
| HJB | Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman |
| LPA* | Lifelong Planning A* |
| MPC | Model Predictive Control |
| OUM | Ordered Upwind Method |
| PDE | Partial Derivative Equation |
| PRM | Probabilistic Roadmap Method |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimizer |
| RABIT* | Regionally Accelerated Batch Informed Trees |
| RDT | Rapidly Deterministic Tree |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning |
| RRT | Rapidly Random Tree |
| RRT* | Heuristic Rapidly Random Tree |
| TEB | Timed Elastic Bands |
| VFH | Vector Field Histogram |