A Framework for Guided Motion Planning

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Main Authors: Attali, Amnon, Ashur, Stav, Love, Isaac Burton, McBeth, Courtney, Motes, James, Morales, Marco, Amato, Nancy M.
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Published: 2024
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author Attali, Amnon
Ashur, Stav
Love, Isaac Burton
McBeth, Courtney
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
author_facet Attali, Amnon
Ashur, Stav
Love, Isaac Burton
McBeth, Courtney
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
contents Randomized sampling based algorithms are widely used in robot motion planning due to the problem's intractability, and are experimentally effective on a wide range of problem instances. Most variants bias their sampling using various heuristics related to the known underlying structure of the search space. In this work, we formalize the intuitive notion of guided search by defining the concept of a guiding space. This new language encapsulates many seemingly distinct prior methods under the same framework, and allows us to reason about guidance, a previously obscured core contribution of different algorithms. We suggest an information theoretic method to evaluate guidance, which experimentally matches intuition when tested on known algorithms in a variety of environments. The language and evaluation of guidance suggests improvements to existing methods, and allows for simple hybrid algorithms that combine guidance from multiple sources.
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spellingShingle A Framework for Guided Motion Planning
Attali, Amnon
Ashur, Stav
Love, Isaac Burton
McBeth, Courtney
Motes, James
Morales, Marco
Amato, Nancy M.
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Randomized sampling based algorithms are widely used in robot motion planning due to the problem's intractability, and are experimentally effective on a wide range of problem instances. Most variants bias their sampling using various heuristics related to the known underlying structure of the search space. In this work, we formalize the intuitive notion of guided search by defining the concept of a guiding space. This new language encapsulates many seemingly distinct prior methods under the same framework, and allows us to reason about guidance, a previously obscured core contribution of different algorithms. We suggest an information theoretic method to evaluate guidance, which experimentally matches intuition when tested on known algorithms in a variety of environments. The language and evaluation of guidance suggests improvements to existing methods, and allows for simple hybrid algorithms that combine guidance from multiple sources.
title A Framework for Guided Motion Planning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03133