Liveness-Based RRT Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Motion Planning

Motion planning is a crucial, basic issue in robotics, which aims at driving vehicles or robots towards to a given destination with various constraints, such as obstacles and limited resource. This paper presents a new version of rapidly exploring random trees (RRT), that is, liveness-based RRT (Li-...

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Main Authors: Yang Li, Fubin Zhang, Demin Xu, Jiguo Dai
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7816263
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description Motion planning is a crucial, basic issue in robotics, which aims at driving vehicles or robots towards to a given destination with various constraints, such as obstacles and limited resource. This paper presents a new version of rapidly exploring random trees (RRT), that is, liveness-based RRT (Li-RRT), to address autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) motion problem. Different from typical RRT, we define an index of each node in the random searching tree, called “liveness” in this paper, to describe the potential effectiveness during the expanding process. We show that Li-RRT is provably probabilistic completeness as original RRT. In addition, the expected time of returning a valid path with Li-RRT is obviously reduced. To verify the efficiency of our algorithm, numerical experiments are carried out in this paper.
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spelling doaj-art-370061bf74924bc895b055461001a6632025-02-03T01:11:48ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952017-01-01201710.1155/2017/78162637816263Liveness-Based RRT Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Motion PlanningYang Li0Fubin Zhang1Demin Xu2Jiguo Dai3The School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, ChinaThe School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, ChinaThe School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, ChinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USAMotion planning is a crucial, basic issue in robotics, which aims at driving vehicles or robots towards to a given destination with various constraints, such as obstacles and limited resource. This paper presents a new version of rapidly exploring random trees (RRT), that is, liveness-based RRT (Li-RRT), to address autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) motion problem. Different from typical RRT, we define an index of each node in the random searching tree, called “liveness” in this paper, to describe the potential effectiveness during the expanding process. We show that Li-RRT is provably probabilistic completeness as original RRT. In addition, the expected time of returning a valid path with Li-RRT is obviously reduced. To verify the efficiency of our algorithm, numerical experiments are carried out in this paper.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7816263
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Liveness-Based RRT Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Motion Planning
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title Liveness-Based RRT Algorithm for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Motion Planning
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