Title
LaLo-Check: A Path Optimization Framework for Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Tree Structure.
Abstract
Motion planning is a basic problem in many areas, such as robotics, computer games, and animation. It is a challenge to generate a better solution in less time. Line-of-Sight (LoS) is the straight path between two points, and LoS-Check is often used as a path shortcutting method. Lazy evaluation is a successful strategy in reducing the amount of collision detection, which accelerates the motion planning algorithms, especially in high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we present Lazy LoS-Check (LaLo-Check), which employs a lazy evaluation strategy with the help of a lower bound technique to delay the LoS-Check until it is necessary. The lower bound technique only accepts the states which could provide a better solution, and it is commonly applied in the sample rejection and candidate path selection. Actually, LaLo-Check can be considered as a general path optimization framework, which could be used in most tree-structure motion planners. We choose three representative sampling-based motion planning algorithms, RRT*, Informed RRT*, and BIT*, to evaluate the performance of LaLo-Check. The experimental results show that the new planners which employ the LaLo-Check could find better solutions than the original algorithms within the equivalent time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2930634
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Motion planning,line of sight,lazy evaluation,lower bound,path optimization
Journal
7
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changwu Zhang100.34
Li Zhou2692.77
Hengzhu Liu38623.28