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Motion planning

Motion planning, also path planning (also known as the navigation problem or the piano mover's problem) is a computational problem to find a sequence of valid configurations that moves the object from the source to destination. The term is used in computational geometry, computer animation, robotics and computer games.

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related to Further reading · 33
Motion planning → Algorithms, April, Berg, Burgard, Business Media, Cambridge University Press, Chapter, Choset, Computational Geometry, Hutchinson, Implementation, ISBN, Jean-Claude, Kantor, Kavraki, Kreveld, Latombe, LaValle, Lynch, Marc
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Motion planning → April, Control, Environment, Jean-Claude Latombe, Motion Planning Kit, Motion Strategy Library, OMPL, Open Motion Planning Library, Open Robotics Automation Virtual, Robot Motion Planning, Simox
see also · 10
Motion planning → Class, Computational, Gimbal, LibraryOpenRAVE, Mathematical, Multi-robot, Pathfinding, Plotting, Similar, The Open Motion Planning
related to Algorithms · 6
Motion planning → Cfree, Exact, Low-dimensional, Potential-field, Sampling-based, They
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Motion planning → However, In, Target, To
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Dijkstra or Ainstance ofa neighbor graph is built and paths can be found using algorithms0.80text
counting its number of connected components.Geometric algorithmsPoint robots among polygonal obstaclesVisibility graphCell decompositionVoronoi diagramTranslating objects among obstaclesMinkowski sumFinding the way out of a buildingfarthest ray traceGiven a bundle of rays around the current position attributed with their length hitting a wallinstance ofavoiding two small horizontal segments.Nicolas Delanoue has shown that the decomposition with subpavings using interval analysis also makes it possible to characterize the topol…0.80text
the robot moves into the direction of the longest ray unless a door is identifiedinstance ofavoiding two small horizontal segments.Nicolas Delanoue has shown that the decomposition with subpavings using interval analysis also makes it possible to characterize the topol…0.80text
counting its number of connected componentsinstance ofavoiding two small horizontal segments.Nicolas Delanoue has shown that the decomposition with subpavings using interval analysis also makes it possible to characterize the topol…0.80text
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsLow-dimensional0.60section
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsCfree0.60section
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsExact0.60section
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsPotential-field0.60section
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsSampling-based0.60section
Motion planningrelated to AlgorithmsThey0.60section
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Motion planningrelated to External linksOpen Robotics Automation Virtual0.60section

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