Title
Real-time robot motion planning using rasterizing computer graphics hardware
Abstract
We present a real-time robot motion planner that is fast and complete to a resolution. The technique is guaranteed to find a path if one exists at the resolution, and all paths returned are safe. The planner can handle any polyhedral geometry of robot and obstacles, including disjoint and highly concave unions of polyhedra.The planner uses standard graphics hardware to rasterize configuration space obstacles into a series of bitmap slices, and then uses dynamic programming to create a navigation function (a discrete vector-valued function) and to calculate paths in this rasterized space. The motion paths which the planner produces are minimal with respect to an L1 (Manhattan) distance metric that includes rotation as well as translation.Several examples are shown illustrating the competence of the planner at generating planar rotational and translational plans for complex two and three dimensional robots. Dynamic motion sequences, including complicated and non-obvious backtracking solutions, can be executed in real time.
Year
DOI
Venue
1990
10.1145/97880.97915
SIGGRAPH
Keywords
Field
DocType
rasterized space,discrete vector-valued function,rasterizing computer graphics hardware,real-time robot motion planner,real-time robot motion planning,bitmap slice,dynamic programming,dynamic motion sequence,navigation function,motion path,dimensional robot,configuration space obstacle,simulation,graphics hardware,value function,technical report,three dimensional,distance metric,real time,computer science,animation,configuration space,computer graphic
Computer graphics (images),Graphics hardware,Computer science,Metric (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Backtracking,Computer graphics,Dynamic programming,Computer vision,Navigation function,Simulation,Bitmap,Robot
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISBN
24
4
0-89791-344-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
113
28.30
11
Authors
4
Search Limit
100113
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jed Lengyel127145.01
Mark Reichert211328.30
Bruce Donald31859335.89
Donald P. Greenberg448841568.57