Keywords
Motion Planning, Potential Fields, Mobile Robots, Path Planning
Abstract
The objective of these notes is to describe a reactive approach to motion planning for mobile robots. In a reactive approach, trajectories are not planned explicitly. Rather, robot interactions are defined explicitly and the robot motion is said to "emerge." The drawback of reactive methods is that it is sometimes difficult to get the robot to do exactly what you want. The reactive approach that will be described in these notes is called the "virtual fields" method and is commonly used in robotics.
Original Publication Citation
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Beard, Randal W. and McLain, Timothy W., "Motion Planning using Potential Fields" (2003). Faculty Publications. 1313.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/1313
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2003-01-01
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3104
Language
English
College
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Copyright Status
© 2003
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