## Point-to-Point and Multi-Goal Path Planning for Industrial Robots

• This article presents contributions in the field of path planning for industrial robots with 6 degrees of freedom. This work presents the results of our research in the last 4 years at the Institute for Process Control and Robotics at the University of Karlsruhe. The path planning approach we present works in an implicit and discretized C-space. Collisions are detected in the Cartesian workspace by a hierarchical distance computation. The method is based on the A* search algorithm and needs no essential off-line computation. A new optimal discretization method leads to smaller search spaces, thus speeding up the planning. For a further acceleration, the search was parallelized. With a static load distribution good speedups can be achieved. By extending the algorithm to a bidirectional search, the planner is able to automatically select the easier search direction. The new dynamic switching of start and goal leads finally to the multi-goal path planning, which is able to compute a collision-free path between a set of goal poses (e.g., spot welding points) while minimizing the total path length.

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Verfasserangaben: Christian Wurll, Dominik Henrich urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-11522 Preprint Englisch 2001 2001 Technische Universität Kaiserslautern 12.06.2001 AG-RESY ; SKALP ; bidirectional search ; discretization; graph search ; industrial robots ; on-line algorithms ; path planning ; search algorithms Fachbereich Informatik 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik AG RESY Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011

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