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Robot Motion Planning

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Jean-Claude Latombe

    1. Stanford University, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 124)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction and Overview

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 1-57

  3. Configuration Space of a Rigid Object

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 58-104

  4. Obstacles in Configuration Space

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 105-152

  5. Roadmap Methods

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 153-199

  6. Exact Cell Decomposition

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 200-247

  7. Approximate Cell Decomposition

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 248-294

  8. Potential Field Methods

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 295-355

  9. Multiple Moving Objects

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 356-402

  10. Kinematic Constraints

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 403-451

  11. Dealing with Uncertainty

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 452-532

  12. Movable Objects

    • Jean-Claude Latombe
    Pages 533-586

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 587-651
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One of the ultimate goals in Robotics is to create autonomous robots. Such robots will accept high-level descriptions of tasks and will execute them without further human intervention. The input descriptions will specify what the user wants done rather than how to do it. The robots will be any kind of versatile mechanical device equipped with actuators and sensors under the control of a computing system. Making progress toward autonomous robots is of major practical inter­ est in a wide variety of application domains including manufacturing, construction, waste management, space exploration, undersea work, as­ sistance for the disabled, and medical surgery. It is also of great technical interest, especially for Computer Science, because it raises challenging and rich computational issues from which new concepts of broad useful­ ness are likely to emerge. Developing the technologies necessary for autonomous robots is a formidable undertaking with deep interweaved ramifications in auto­ mated reasoning, perception and control. It raises many important prob­ lems. One of them - motion planning - is the central theme of this book. It can be loosely stated as follows: How can a robot decide what motions to perform in order to achieve goal arrangements of physical objects? This capability is eminently necessary since, by definition, a robot accomplishes tasks by moving in the real world. The minimum one would expect from an autonomous robot is the ability to plan its x Preface own motions.

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  • Stanford University, USA

    Jean-Claude Latombe

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