Parallel on-line motion planning for industrial robots
- This paper presents a new approach to parallel motion planning for industrial robot arms with six degrees of freedom in an on-line given 3D environment. The method is based on the A*-search algorithm and needs no essential off-line computations. The algorithm works in an implicitly descrete configuration space. Collisions are detected in the cartesian workspace by hierarchical distance computation based on the given CAD model. By decomposing the 6D configuration space into hypercubes and cyclically mapping them onto multiple processing units, a good load distribution can be achieved. We have implemented the parallel motion planner on a workstation cluster with 9 PCs and tested the planner for several benchmark environments. With optimal discretisation, the new approach usually shows linear, and sometimes even superlinear speedups. In on-line provided environments with static obstacles, the parallel planning times are only a few seconds.
Author: | Christian Wurll, Dominik Henrich, Heinz Wörn |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-9765 |
Document Type: | Article |
Language of publication: | English |
Year of Completion: | 1998 |
Year of first Publication: | 1998 |
Publishing Institution: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2000/04/06 |
Tag: | AG-RESY; PARO; SKALP; motion planning; parallel processing; search alogorithms |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Informatik |
DDC-Cassification: | 0 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
Collections: | AG RESY |
Licence (German): | Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011 |