HAS-RRT: RRT-based Motion Planning using Topological Guidance

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Main Authors: Uwacu, Diane, Yammanuru, Ananya, Nallamotu, Keerthana, Chalasani, Vasu, Morales, Marco, Amato, Nancy M.
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Published: 2023
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author Uwacu, Diane
Yammanuru, Ananya
Nallamotu, Keerthana
Chalasani, Vasu
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
author_facet Uwacu, Diane
Yammanuru, Ananya
Nallamotu, Keerthana
Chalasani, Vasu
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
contents We present a hierarchical RRT-based motion planning strategy, Hierarchical Annotated-Skeleton Guided RRT (HAS-RRT), guided by a workspace skeleton, to solve motion planning problems. HAS-RRT provides up to a 91% runtime reduction and builds a tree at least 30% smaller than competitors while still finding competitive-cost paths. This is because our strategy prioritizes paths indicated by the workspace guidance to efficiently find a valid motion plan for the robot. Existing methods either rely too heavily on workspace guidance or have difficulty finding narrow passages. By taking advantage of the assumptions that the workspace skeleton provides, HAS-RRT is able to build a smaller tree and find a path faster than its competitors. Additionally, we show that HAS-RRT is robust to the quality of workspace guidance provided and that, in a worst-case scenario where the workspace skeleton provides no additional insight, our method performs comparably to an unguided method.
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spellingShingle HAS-RRT: RRT-based Motion Planning using Topological Guidance
Uwacu, Diane
Yammanuru, Ananya
Nallamotu, Keerthana
Chalasani, Vasu
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
Robotics
We present a hierarchical RRT-based motion planning strategy, Hierarchical Annotated-Skeleton Guided RRT (HAS-RRT), guided by a workspace skeleton, to solve motion planning problems. HAS-RRT provides up to a 91% runtime reduction and builds a tree at least 30% smaller than competitors while still finding competitive-cost paths. This is because our strategy prioritizes paths indicated by the workspace guidance to efficiently find a valid motion plan for the robot. Existing methods either rely too heavily on workspace guidance or have difficulty finding narrow passages. By taking advantage of the assumptions that the workspace skeleton provides, HAS-RRT is able to build a smaller tree and find a path faster than its competitors. Additionally, we show that HAS-RRT is robust to the quality of workspace guidance provided and that, in a worst-case scenario where the workspace skeleton provides no additional insight, our method performs comparably to an unguided method.
title HAS-RRT: RRT-based Motion Planning using Topological Guidance
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10801