Title :
Improving RRT motion trajectories using VFM
Author :
Garrido, Santiago ; Blanco, Dolores ; Moreno, Luis ; Martin, Fernando
Author_Institution :
Robot. Lab., Carlos III Univ., Leganes
Abstract :
This paper presents a new method to improve the trajectories based in the Voronoi fast marching method (VFM). It can be used to improve the smoothness and the length of the trajectories calculated with probabilistic methods with bad quality trajectories such as RRT or PRM. This way, it is possible to get the good properties of the RRT method as the fact that it can work in many dimensions with the good properties of VFM method. This method is very fast and reliable and the trajectories are similar to the human trajectories: smooth and not very close to obstacles and walls.
Keywords :
computational geometry; path planning; probability; trees (mathematics); Voronoi fast marching method; human trajectories; path planning approaches; probabilistic methods; rapidly-exploring random tree motion trajectories; Electromagnetic scattering; Humans; Mechatronics; Mobile robots; Navigation; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Orbital robotics; Path planning; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics, 2009. ICM 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Malaga
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4194-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4195-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMECH.2009.4957120