Flexible Informed Trees (FIT*): Adaptive Batch-Size Approach in Informed Sampling-Based Path Planning

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Main Authors: Zhang, Liding, Bing, Zhenshan, Chen, Kejia, Chen, Lingyun, Cai, Kuanqi, Zhang, Yu, Wu, Fan, Krumbholz, Peter, Yuan, Zhilin, Haddadin, Sami, Knoll, Alois
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author Zhang, Liding
Bing, Zhenshan
Chen, Kejia
Chen, Lingyun
Cai, Kuanqi
Zhang, Yu
Wu, Fan
Krumbholz, Peter
Yuan, Zhilin
Haddadin, Sami
Knoll, Alois
author_facet Zhang, Liding
Bing, Zhenshan
Chen, Kejia
Chen, Lingyun
Cai, Kuanqi
Zhang, Yu
Wu, Fan
Krumbholz, Peter
Yuan, Zhilin
Haddadin, Sami
Knoll, Alois
contents In path planning, anytime almost-surely asymptotically optimal planners dominate the benchmark of sampling-based planners. A notable example is Batch Informed Trees (BIT*), where planners iteratively determine paths to batches of vertices within the exploration area. However, utilizing a consistent batch size is inefficient for initial pathfinding and optimal performance, it relies on effective task allocation. This paper introduces Flexible Informed Trees (FIT*), a sampling-based planner that integrates an adaptive batch-size method to enhance the initial path convergence rate. FIT* employs a flexible approach in adjusting batch sizes dynamically based on the inherent dimension of the configuration spaces and the hypervolume of the n-dimensional hyperellipsoid. By applying dense and sparse sampling strategy, FIT* improves convergence rate while finding successful solutions faster with lower initial solution cost. This method enhances the planner's ability to handle confined, narrow spaces in the initial finding phase and increases batch vertices sampling frequency in the optimization phase. FIT* outperforms existing single-query, sampling-based planners on the tested problems in R^2 to R^8, and was demonstrated on a real-world mobile manipulation task.
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spellingShingle Flexible Informed Trees (FIT*): Adaptive Batch-Size Approach in Informed Sampling-Based Path Planning
Zhang, Liding
Bing, Zhenshan
Chen, Kejia
Chen, Lingyun
Cai, Kuanqi
Zhang, Yu
Wu, Fan
Krumbholz, Peter
Yuan, Zhilin
Haddadin, Sami
Knoll, Alois
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In path planning, anytime almost-surely asymptotically optimal planners dominate the benchmark of sampling-based planners. A notable example is Batch Informed Trees (BIT*), where planners iteratively determine paths to batches of vertices within the exploration area. However, utilizing a consistent batch size is inefficient for initial pathfinding and optimal performance, it relies on effective task allocation. This paper introduces Flexible Informed Trees (FIT*), a sampling-based planner that integrates an adaptive batch-size method to enhance the initial path convergence rate. FIT* employs a flexible approach in adjusting batch sizes dynamically based on the inherent dimension of the configuration spaces and the hypervolume of the n-dimensional hyperellipsoid. By applying dense and sparse sampling strategy, FIT* improves convergence rate while finding successful solutions faster with lower initial solution cost. This method enhances the planner's ability to handle confined, narrow spaces in the initial finding phase and increases batch vertices sampling frequency in the optimization phase. FIT* outperforms existing single-query, sampling-based planners on the tested problems in R^2 to R^8, and was demonstrated on a real-world mobile manipulation task.
title Flexible Informed Trees (FIT*): Adaptive Batch-Size Approach in Informed Sampling-Based Path Planning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12828