Mobile robots path planning: Electrostatic potential field approach

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Highlights:

• Electrostatic potential field theory is used to solve robot’s path planning problem.

• All obstacles’ features are integrated into a scalar potential field to make decision.

• Collision-free and fast approaching objectives are achieved via an optimization.

• Using a scalar potential field makes it extremely simple and practically feasible.

• The proposed method can be simply applied to both static and dynamic environments.

摘要

•Electrostatic potential field theory is used to solve robot’s path planning problem.•All obstacles’ features are integrated into a scalar potential field to make decision.•Collision-free and fast approaching objectives are achieved via an optimization.•Using a scalar potential field makes it extremely simple and practically feasible.•The proposed method can be simply applied to both static and dynamic environments.

论文关键词:Path planning,Mobile robot,Potential field,Obstacle avoidance

论文评审过程:Received 9 August 2017, Revised 25 December 2017, Accepted 27 January 2018, Available online 31 January 2018, Version of Record 8 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.050