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JRM Vol.26 No.2 pp. 236-244
doi: 10.20965/jrm.2014.p0236
(2014)

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A Reasonable Path Planning via Path Energy Minimization

Masashi Yokozuka and Osamu Matsumoto

Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

Received:
December 3, 2013
Accepted:
February 10, 2014
Published:
April 20, 2014
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Keywords:
path planning, energy minimizing method, mobile robot
Abstract
This paper presents a path planning method by path energy minimizing that enables mobile robots to move smoothly in the real world with optimizing path shape for shortest distance or minimum curvature. It also enables robots to travel safely toward a destination because pedestrian motion prediction is embedded in path planning. This path planning method is based on problems experienced in a robot competition called Tsukuba Challenge. The problems involved nonsmooth motion arising from finite path patterns in A* algorithm, stuck motion arising from frequently path switching, and near misses arising from nonpredictive planning. Our path planning method minimizes pathshape energy defined as the connection between path points. Minimizing energy provides smooth paths and avoids path switching. We propose a path planning method with prediction of dynamic obstacle motion embedded to avoid near misses. Experimental results showed improvements in solving these problems.
Cite this article as:
M. Yokozuka and O. Matsumoto, “A Reasonable Path Planning via Path Energy Minimization,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.26 No.2, pp. 236-244, 2014.
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