@ARTICLE{11272980, author={Chen, Xuechao and Qi, Hengbo and Yu, Zhangguo and Zhang, Zeyu and Yang, Ruiwen and Shi, Yongliang and Meng, Fei and Huang, Qiang}, journal={IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics}, title={TGH-Planner: Topology-Guided Hierarchical Planner for Nonholonomic Robots in 2-D Unknown and Complex Environments}, year={2025}, volume={}, number={}, pages={1-13}, keywords={Robots;Planning;Safety;Trajectory optimization;Splines (mathematics);Computational efficiency;Topology;Standards;Smoothing methods;Mechatronics;Motion planning;nonholonomic robot;path planning;topological path;trajectory optimization}, doi={10.1109/TMECH.2025.3620817}}