Title
Informative path planning with a human path constraint
Abstract
One way for a human and a robot to collaborate on a search task is for the human to specify constraints on the robot's path and then allow the robot to find an optimal path subject to these constraints. This paper presents an anytime solution to the robot's path-planning problem when the human specifies a path constraint and an acceptable amount of deviation from this path. The robot's objective is to maximize information gathered during the search subject to this constraint. We first discretize the path constraint and then convert the resulting problem into a multi-partite graph. Information maximization becomes a submodular orienteering problem on this topology structure. Backtracking is used to generate an efficient heuristic for solving this problem, and an expanding tree is used to facilitate an anytime algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SMC.2014.6974170
SMC
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,backtracking,submodular orienteering problem,human path constraint,trees (mathematics),human-robot interaction,expanding tree,path planning,topology structure,information maximization,robot path-planning problem,informative path planning
Motion planning,Mathematical optimization,Any-angle path planning,Heuristic,Shortest path problem,Computer science,Submodular set function,Artificial intelligence,Anytime algorithm,Robot,Backtracking,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
2
0.43
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daqing Yi1154.31
Michael A. Goodrich21738171.30
Kevin D. Seppi333541.46