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Book Heuristic Algorithms for Motion Planning

Download or read book Heuristic Algorithms for Motion Planning written by Craig Eldershaw and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Heuristic Algorithms for Efficient Hierarchical Path Planning

Download or read book New Heuristic Algorithms for Efficient Hierarchical Path Planning written by David Zhu and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the ultimate goals of robotics research is to create autonomous robots. Progress toward this goal requires advances in many domains, including automatic motion planning. The basic problem in motion planning is to construct a collision-free path for a moving object among fixed obstacles. Several approaches have been proposed, including cell decomposition, retraction, and potential field. Nevertheless, most existing planners still lack efficiency, or reliability, or both. In this paper, we consider one of the most popular approaches to path planning: hierarchical approximate cell decomposition. We propose a set of new algorithms for constructing more efficient and reliable path planners based on this general approach. These algorithms concern the hierarchical decomposition of the robot's configuration space into rectangloid cells, and the search of the connectivity graphs built at each level of decomposition. We have implemented these algorithms in a path planner and experimented with this planner on various examples. Some are described in the paper. These experiments show that our planner is significantly faster than previous planners based on the same general approach. (KR).

Book A Heuristic Algorithm for Motion Planning of an AGV in Dynamic Environments

Download or read book A Heuristic Algorithm for Motion Planning of an AGV in Dynamic Environments written by Anastasios Diamantopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Algorithms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven M. LaValle
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-05-29
  • ISBN : 9780521862059
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book Planning Algorithms written by Steven M. LaValle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. Written for computer scientists and engineers with interests in artificial intelligence, robotics, or control theory, this is the only book on this topic that tightly integrates a vast body of literature from several fields into a coherent source for teaching and reference in a wide variety of applications. Difficult mathematical material is explained through hundreds of examples and illustrations.

Book Motion Planning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edgar A. Martínez García
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-01-26
  • ISBN : 1839697733
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Motion Planning written by Edgar A. Martínez García and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motion planning is a fundamental function in robotics and numerous intelligent machines. The global concept of planning involves multiple capabilities, such as path generation, dynamic planning, optimization, tracking, and control. This book has organized different planning topics into three general perspectives that are classified by the type of robotic applications. The chapters are a selection of recent developments in a) planning and tracking methods for unmanned aerial vehicles, b) heuristically based methods for navigation planning and routes optimization, and c) control techniques developed for path planning of autonomous wheeled platforms.

Book Robot Rover Visual Navigation

Download or read book Robot Rover Visual Navigation written by Hans P. Moravec and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Motion Planning Using Numerical Optimal Control

Download or read book On Motion Planning Using Numerical Optimal Control written by Kristoffer Bergman and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decades, motion planning for autonomous systems has become an important area of research. The high interest is not the least due to the development of systems such as self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles and robotic manipulators. In this thesis, the objective is not only to find feasible solutions to a motion planning problem, but solutions that also optimize some kind of performance measure. From a control perspective, the resulting problem is an instance of an optimal control problem. In this thesis, the focus is to further develop optimal control algorithms such that they be can used to obtain improved solutions to motion planning problems. This is achieved by combining ideas from automatic control, numerical optimization and robotics. First, a systematic approach for computing local solutions to motion planning problems in challenging environments is presented. The solutions are computed by combining homotopy methods and numerical optimal control techniques. The general principle is to define a homotopy that transforms, or preferably relaxes, the original problem to an easily solved problem. The approach is demonstrated in motion planning problems in 2D and 3D environments, where the presented method outperforms both a state-of-the-art numerical optimal control method based on standard initialization strategies and a state-of-the-art optimizing sampling-based planner based on random sampling. Second, a framework for automatically generating motion primitives for lattice-based motion planners is proposed. Given a family of systems, the user only needs to specify which principle types of motions that are relevant for the considered system family. Based on the selected principle motions and a selected system instance, the algorithm not only automatically optimizes the motions connecting pre-defined boundary conditions, but also simultaneously optimizes the terminal state constraints as well. In addition to handling static a priori known system parameters such as platform dimensions, the framework also allows for fast automatic re-optimization of motion primitives if the system parameters change while the system is in use. Furthermore, the proposed framework is extended to also allow for an optimization of discretization parameters, that are are used by the lattice-based motion planner to define a state-space discretization. This enables an optimized selection of these parameters for a specific system instance. Finally, a unified optimization-based path planning approach to efficiently compute locally optimal solutions to advanced path planning problems is presented. The main idea is to combine the strengths of sampling-based path planners and numerical optimal control. The lattice-based path planner is applied to the problem in a first step using a discretized search space, where system dynamics and objective function are chosen to coincide with those used in a second numerical optimal control step. This novel tight combination of a sampling-based path planner and numerical optimal control makes, in a structured way, benefit of the former method’s ability to solve combinatorial parts of the problem and the latter method’s ability to obtain locally optimal solutions not constrained to a discretized search space. The proposed approach is shown in several practically relevant path planning problems to provide improvements in terms of computation time, numerical reliability, and objective function value.

Book Autonomy and Unmanned Vehicles

Download or read book Autonomy and Unmanned Vehicles written by Somaiyeh MahmoudZadeh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses higher–lower level decision autonomy for autonomous vehicles, and discusses the addition of a novel architecture to cover both levels. The proposed framework’s performance and stability are subsequently investigated by employing different meta-heuristic algorithms. The performance of the proposed architecture is shown to be largely independent of the algorithms employed; the use of diverse algorithms (subjected to the real-time performance of the algorithm) does not negatively affect the system’s real-time performance. By analyzing the simulation results, the book demonstrates that the proposed model provides perfect mission timing and task management, while also guaranteeing secure deployment. Although mainly intended as a research work, the book’s review chapters and the new approaches developed here are also suitable for use in courses for advanced undergraduate or graduate students.

Book Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments

Download or read book Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments written by Kikuo Fujimura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology. Every volume in this series will deal with a topic of importance in computer science and elaborate on how you yourself can build systems related to the main theme. You will be able to develop a variety of systems, including computer software tools, computer graphics, computer animation, database management systems, and computer-aided design and manufacturing systems. Computer Science Workbench represents an important new contribution in the field of practical computer technology. TOSIYASU L. KUNII To my parents Kenjiro and Nori Fujimura Preface Motion planning is an area in robotics that has received much attention recently. Much of the past research focuses on static environments - various methods have been developed and their characteristics have been well investigated. Although it is essential for autonomous intelligent robots to be able to navigate within dynamic worlds, the problem of motion planning in dynamic domains is relatively little understood compared with static problems.

Book Heuristic Search for Manipulation Planning

Download or read book Heuristic Search for Manipulation Planning written by Caelan Reed Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manipulation problems involving many objects present substantial challenges for planning algorithms due to the high dimensionality and multi-modality of the search space. Symbolic task planners can efficiently construct plans involving many entities but cannot incorporate the constraints from geometry and kinematics. Existing approaches to integrated task and motion planning as well as manipulation planning remain prohibitively slow to plan in these high-dimensional hybrid configuration spaces involving many objects. We present the FFRoB algorithm for task and motion planning and the hybrid heuristic backward-forward (HHBF) planning algorithm for general manipulation planning. Both algorithms adapt heuristic ideas from one of the most successful symbolic planners in recent years, the FastForward (FF) planner, to continuous robotic planning domains. FFRoB discretizes task and motion planning problems using a multi-query roadmap structure that can be conditionalized to model different placements of movable objects. This structure enables the planner to efficiently compute the FFRoB heuristic which incorporates geometric and kinematic planning constraints to give a tight estimate of the distance to the goal. The resulting tightly integrated planner is simple and performs efficiently in a collection of tasks involving manipulation of many objects. HHBF generalizes this idea to planning with arbitrary manipulation primitives. It dynamically searches forward from the initial state towards the goal but uses a backward search from the goal, based on a simplified representation of the actions, to bias the sampling of the infinite action space towards action that are likely to be useful in reaching the goal. As a result, it can construct long manipulation plans in a large class of manipulation domains even more effectively than FFRoB. For both algorithms, we empirically demonstrate their effectiveness on complex manipulation tasks.

Book Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XI

Download or read book Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XI written by H. Levent Akin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited volume is the outcome of the eleventh edition of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), which is the premier venue showcasing cutting edge research in algorithmic robotics. The eleventh WAFR, which was held August 3-5, 2014 at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey continued this tradition. This volume contains extended versions of the 42 papers presented at WAFR. These contributions highlight the cutting edge research in classical robotics problems (e.g. manipulation, motion, path, multi-robot and kinodynamic planning), geometric and topological computation in robotics as well novel applications such as informative path planning, active sensing and surgical planning. This book - rich by topics and authoritative contributors - is a unique reference on the current developments and new directions in the field of algorithmic foundations.

Book Quelques probl  mes pos  es par la cellule canc  reuse

Download or read book Quelques probl mes pos es par la cellule canc reuse written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motion Planning for Dynamic Agents

Download or read book Motion Planning for Dynamic Agents written by Zain Anwar Ali and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Motion Planning for Dynamic Agents, presents a thorough overview of current advancements and provides insights into the fascinating and vital field of aeronautics. It focuses on modern research and development, with an emphasis on dynamic agents. The chapters address a wide range of complex capabilities, including formation control, guidance and navigation, control techniques, wide-space coverage for inspection and exploration, and the best pathfinding in unknown territory. This book is a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and amateurs alike due to the variety of perspectives that are included, which help readers gain a sophisticated understanding of the difficulties and developments in the area of study.

Book Parallel Search Algorithms for Robot Motion Planning

Download or read book Parallel Search Algorithms for Robot Motion Planning written by Daniel Joseph Challou and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meta Heuristics Optimization Algorithms in Engineering  Business  Economics  and Finance

Download or read book Meta Heuristics Optimization Algorithms in Engineering Business Economics and Finance written by Vasant, Pandian M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization techniques have developed into a significant area concerning industrial, economics, business, and financial systems. With the development of engineering and financial systems, modern optimization has played an important role in service-centered operations and as such has attracted more attention to this field. Meta-heuristic hybrid optimization is a newly development mathematical framework based optimization technique. Designed by logicians, engineers, analysts, and many more, this technique aims to study the complexity of algorithms and problems. Meta-Heuristics Optimization Algorithms in Engineering, Business, Economics, and Finance explores the emerging study of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms and methods and their role in innovated real world practical applications. This book is a collection of research on the areas of meta-heuristics optimization algorithms in engineering, business, economics, and finance and aims to be a comprehensive reference for decision makers, managers, engineers, researchers, scientists, financiers, and economists as well as industrialists.

Book Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science

Download or read book Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science written by Tadeusz Uhl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 4248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the 15th IFToMM World Congress, which was held in Krakow, Poland, from June 30 to July 4, 2019. Having been organized every four years since 1965, the Congress represents the world’s largest scientific event on mechanism and machine science (MMS). The contributions cover an extremely diverse range of topics, including biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, design methodologies, dynamics of machinery, multibody dynamics, gearing and transmissions, history of MMS, linkage and mechanical controls, robotics and mechatronics, micro-mechanisms, reliability of machines and mechanisms, rotor dynamics, standardization of terminology, sustainable energy systems, transportation machinery, tribology and vibration. Selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, they highlight numerous exciting advances and ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster new multidisciplinary collaborations.

Book The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning

Download or read book The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning written by John Canny and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning makes original contributions both to roboticsand to the analysis of algorithms. In this groundbreaking monograph John Canny resolveslong-standing problems concerning the complexity of motion planning and, for the central problem offinding a collision free path for a jointed robot in the presence of obstacles, obtains exponentialspeedups over existing algorithms by applying high-powered new mathematical techniques.Canny's newalgorithm for this "generalized movers' problem," the most-studied and basic robot motion planningproblem, has a single exponential running time, and is polynomial for any given robot. The algorithmhas an optimal running time exponent and is based on the notion of roadmaps - one-dimensionalsubsets of the robot's configuration space. In deriving the single exponential bound, Cannyintroduces and reveals the power of two tools that have not been previously used in geometricalgorithms: the generalized (multivariable) resultant for a system of polynomials and Whitney'snotion of stratified sets. He has also developed a novel representation of object orientation basedon unnormalized quaternions which reduces the complexity of the algorithms and enhances theirpractical applicability.After dealing with the movers' problem, the book next attacks and derivesseveral lower bounds on extensions of the problem: finding the shortest path among polyhedralobstacles, planning with velocity limits, and compliant motion planning with uncertainty. Itintroduces a clever technique, "path encoding," that allows a proof of NP-hardness for the first twoproblems and then shows that the general form of compliant motion planning, a problem that is thefocus of a great deal of recent work in robotics, is non-deterministic exponential time hard. Cannyproves this result using a highly original construction.John Canny received his doctorate from MITAnd is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California,Berkeley. The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning is the winner of the 1987 ACM DoctoralDissertation Award.