Chance-constrained optimal path planning with obstacles

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1080-1094

  Blackmore, Lars ^a   Ono, Masahiro ^b   Williams, Brian C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; chance constraints; optimization under uncertainty; probabilistic planning

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; AVOID OBSTACLES; BRANCH AND BOUNDS; CHANCE CONSTRAINT; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED APPROACH; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATIONS; COMPUTATION TIME; CONVEX PROGRAMS; CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; GLOBAL OPTIMALITY; MODELING ERRORS; NONCONVEX; OPTIMAL PATH PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY; PROBABILISTIC DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC PLANNING; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; ROBUST EXECUTION; SUBOPTIMALITY; VEHICLE STATE;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 83555174965     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2161160     Document Type: Article

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