Improving the performance of sampling-based motion planning with symmetry-based gap reduction

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 488-494

  Cheng, Peng ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^b   LaValle, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinodynamic planning; Motion planning; Nonholonomic planning; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SAMPLING;

KINODYNAMIC PLANNING; NONHOLONOMIC PLANNING; TRAJECTORY PERTURBATION METHOD;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 42549113521     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.913993     Document Type: Article

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