@ARTICLE{11422272, author={Qi, Hengbo and Zhang, Yu and Pan, Chenxi and Li, Mengting and Meng, Fei and Yu, Zhangguo and Lu, Peng and Chen, Xuechao}, journal={IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics}, title={Enveloped Generalized Voronoi Graph and Multihomotopy Path Planning for Navigation in Unknown Environments}, year={2026}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-13}, keywords={Navigation;Planning;Path planning;Skeleton;Real-time systems;Topology;Three-dimensional displays;Systematics;Simultaneous localization and mapping;Robustness;Autonomous navigation;generalized Voronoi diagram (GVD);generalized Voronoi graph (GVG);path planning;unknown environment navigation;Voronoi diagram}, doi={10.1109/TMECH.2026.3665212}}