Title
Potential functions based sampling heuristic for optimal path planning
Abstract
Rapidly-exploring Random Tree star (RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacles geometry in a given environment. However, one of the limitation in the RRT* algorithm is slow convergence to optimal path solution. As a result it consumes high memory as well as time due to the large number of iterations utilised in achieving optimal path solution. To overcome these limitations, we propose the potential function based-RRT* that incorporates the artificial potential field algorithm in RRT*. The proposed algorithm allows a considerable decrease in the number of iterations and thus leads to more efficient memory utilization and an accelerated convergence rate. In order to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed algorithm in terms of space execution and convergence rate, this paper presents rigorous simulation based comparisons between the proposed techniques and RRT* under different environmental conditions. Moreover, both algorithms are also tested and compared under non-holonomic differential constraints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s10514-015-9518-0
Autonomous Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
Motion planning,Convergence rate,Optimal path planning,Artificial potential fields,Sampling based algorithms
Convergence (routing),Motion planning,Random tree,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,High memory,Computer science,Rate of convergence,Sampling (statistics),Asymptotically optimal algorithm
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1704.00264
6
Autonomous Robots 40, no. 6 (2016): 1079-1093
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.64
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed Hussain Qureshi1548.83
Yasar Ayaz26311.39