Balancing exploration and exploitation in sampling-based motion planning

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1305-1317

  Rickert, Markus ^a   Sieverling, Arne ^b   Brock, Oliver ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balancing exploration and exploitation; Path planning for manipulators; Sampling strategy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SPACE RESEARCH; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

BALANCING EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATIONS; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; LOCAL CONFIGURATIONS; MOTION PLANNING PROBLEMS; PATH PLANNING FOR MANIPULATORS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SAMPLING-BASED MOTION PLANNING; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 84916928273     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2014.2340191     Document Type: Article

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