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6 DOF path planning in dynamic environments - A parallel on-line approach

  • This paper presents a new approach to parallel path planning for industrial robot arms with six degrees of freedom in an on-line given 3D environment. The method is based a best-first search algorithm and needs no essential off-line computations. The algorithm works in an implicitly discrete configuration space. Collisions are detected in the Cartesian workspace by hierarchical distance computation based on polyhedral models of the robot and the obstacles. 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 path planner on a workstation cluster with 9 PCs and tested the planner for several benchmark environments. With optimal discretisation, the new approach usually shows very good speedups. In on-line provided environments with static obstacles, the parallel planning times are only a few seconds.

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Author:Dominik Henrich, Christian Wurll, Heinz Wörn
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-9723
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):2000/04/04
Tag:AG-RESY; PARO; SKALP
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