Assembly path planning of complex products in virtual assembly is a necessary and complicated step, which will become long and inefficient if the assembly path of each part is completely planned in the assembly space. The coincidence or partial coinc...
The 5-axis Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) is widely used for quality data collection of the machining parts, such as cylinder blocks and heads of the engines. High efficient inspection path planning for multiple feature groups from different stat...
Good path planning technology of mobile robot can not only save a lot of time, but also reduce the wear and capital investment of mobile robot. Several methodologies have been proposed and reported in the literature for the path planning of mobile ro...
Mobile robot path planning involves designing optimal routes from starting points to destinations within specific environmental conditions. Even though there are well-established autonomous navigation solutions, it is worth noting that comprehensive,...
As a floating system connecting hydraulic support and scraper conveyor, the path planning of pushing mechanism is of great significance for their coordinated movement. In this paper, a method for path planning of hydraulic support pushing mechanism b...
With the development of robotics technology, there is a growing demand for robots to perform path planning autonomously. Therefore, rapidly and safely planning travel routes has become an important research direction for autonomous mobile robots. Thi...
In the face of increasing demands for tasks such as mountain rescue, geological exploration, and military operations in complex wilderness environments, planning an efficient walking route is crucial. To address the inefficiency of traditional two-di...
Path planning is a core technology for mobile robots. However, existing state-of-the-art methods suffer from issues such as excessive path redundancy, too many turning points, and poor environmental adaptability. To address these challenges, this pap...
We examine how site-based path planning algorithms for enclosed spaces can be enhanced with situational detail. Addressing this question has led to value propositions in facility design, where there is often a call to match, map, and merge infrastruc...
Coverage path planning (CPP) is a field of study which objective is to find a path that covers every point of a certain area of interest. Recently, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has become more proficient in various applications such as...
Penetration Testing (PT) is an effective proactive security technique that simulates hacker attacks to identify vulnerabilities in networks or systems. However, traditional PT relies on specialized experience and costs extraordinary time and effort....
With the continued development of artificial intelligence technology, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have attracted the attention of countless domestic and international specialists and academics. In particular, path planning is a core technique fo...
Robot path planning is one of the core issues in robotics and its application. Optimizing the route discovery becomes more important while dealing with the robot-based application. This paper proposes the concept of early detection of the obstacle pr...
This study aimed to assess the moderating effect of strategic planning on the relationship between career path planning and job performance among employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. A convenience sample c...
The precision and efficiency of multi-target path planning are crucial factors influencing the performance of anti-mine operations using unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Addressing the inadequacies in computation time and solution quality present...
The paper addresses path planning and path-following problems in an unknown complex environment for an underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The AUV is required to follow a given reference path represented as a sequence of smoothly joine...
Complete coverage path planning (CCPP) is vital in mobile robot applications. Optimizing CCPP is particularly significant in precision agriculture, where it enhances resource utilization, reduces soil compaction, and boosts crop yields. This work off...
In this article we demonstrate that acceleration and deceleration of direction-turning drones at waypoints have a significant influence to path planning which is important to be considered for time-critical applications, such as drone-supported searc...
Path planning is often considered as an important task in autonomous driving applications. Current planning method only concerns the knowledge of robot kinematics, however, in GPS denied environments, the robot odometry sensor often causes accumulate...
Path planning is crucial in the automatic navigation of USVs (unmanned underwater vehicles), which directly affects the operational efficiency and safety of USVs. In this paper, we propose a path-planning algorithm based on DDPG (Deep Deterministic P...
Underwater autonomous path planning is a critical component of intelligent underwater vehicle system design, especially for maritime conservation and monitoring missions. Effective path planning for these robots necessitates considering various const...
The research in path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is an active topic nowadays. The path planning strategy highly depends on the map abstraction available. In a previous work, we presented an ellipsoidal mapping algorithm (EMA) that was...
Drone power management poses ongoing challenges that significantly impact operational effectiveness across various applications. This research examines path planning optimization, particularly focusing on distance minimization to enhance efficiency a...
Path planning and tracking control is an essential part of autonomous vehicle research. In terms of path planning, the artificial potential field (APF) algorithm has attracted much attention due to its completeness. However, it has many limitations,...
How to generate a safe and high-quality path for a moving robot is a classical issue. The relative solution is also suitable for computer games and animation. To make the problem simpler, it is common to discretize the continuous planning space into...
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning problem is primarily concerned with avoiding collision with obstacles while determining the best flight path to the target position. This paper first establishes a cost function to transform the UAV rou...
Automatic robotic inspection of arbitrary free-form shapes is relevant for many quality control applications in different industries. We propose a method for planning the motion of an industrial robot to perform ultrasonic inspection of varying 3D sh...
Construction robots are increasingly becoming a significant force in the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of the construction industry. Path planning is crucial for the advancement of building robot technology. Based on the understand...
In this paper, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method for optimal path planning for mobile robots using dynamic programming (DP)-based data collection. The proposed method can overcome the slow learning process and improve traini...
Flying safely in complex urban environments is a challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles because path planning in urban environments with many narrow passages and few dynamic flight obstacles is difficult. The path planning problem is decomposed into...
Path planning plays an essential role in mobile robot navigation, and the A* algorithm is one of the best-known path planning algorithms. However, the conventional A* algorithm and the subsequent improved algorithms still have some limitations in ter...
This paper studies the path planning problem for aircraft fleet taxiing on the flight deck of carriers, which is of great significance for improving the safety and efficiency level of launching. As there are various defects of manual command in the f...
As the technology of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) advances, these vehicles are increasingly being used in various industries. However, the navigation of UAVs often faces restrictions and obstacles, necessitating the implementation of path-planning...
With the extensive developments in autonomous vehicles (AV) and the increase of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), path planning is becoming a focal area of research. However, path planning is an NP-hard problem and its execution time and comp...
This study applies path planning and obstacle avoidance to drone control for conducting riverbank inspections. Given that the river’s surrounding environments are often windy and filled with overgrown branches and unknown obstacles, this study...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have gained a lot of popularity over the last decade. The use of autonomous drones appears to be a viable and low-cost solution to problems in many applications. Path planning capabilities are essential for...
Mobile robots, including ground robots, underwater robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles, play an increasingly important role in people’s work and lives. Path planning and obstacle avoidance are the core technologies for achieving autonomy in mo...
In the traditional rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm, the planned path is not smooth, the distance is long, and the fault tolerance rate of the planned path is low. Disturbances in an environment can cause unmanned surface vessels (USVs)...
Numerous path-planning studies have been conducted in past decades due to the challenges of obtaining optimal solutions. This paper reviews multi-robot path-planning approaches and decision-making strategies and presents the path-planning algorithms...
To address the operational demands of irregular farmland with fixed obstacles, this study proposes a full-coverage path planning framework that integrates UAV-based 3D perception and angle-adaptive optimization. First, digital orthophoto maps (DOMs)...
Perception, planning, and control are three enabling technologies to achieve autonomy in autonomous driving. In particular, planning provides vehicles with a safe and collision-free path towards their destinations, accounting for vehicle dynamics, ma...
Path planning algorithms are used by mobile robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and autonomous cars in order to identify safe, efficient, collision-free, and least-cost travel paths from an origin to a destination. Choosing an appropriate path planning...
Targeting some problems of the RRT_Connect path planning algorithm, such as average search and low efficiency, proposes an improved RRT_Connect algorithm that may optimize the searched nodes and parts of planned paths. Firstly, an improved RRT_Connec...
Assembly path planning (APP) for complex products is challenging due to the large number of parts and intricate coupling requirements. A hybrid assembly path planning method is proposed herein that reuses a priori paths to improve the efficiency and...
This paper aims to develop a new mobile robot path planning algorithm, called generalized laser simulator (GLS), for navigating autonomously mobile robots in the presence of static and dynamic obstacles. This algorithm enables a mobile robot to ident...
Deceptive path-planning is the task of finding a path so as to minimize the probability of an observer (or a defender) identifying the observed agent’s final goal before the goal has been reached. It is one of the important approaches to solvin...
The modular robot is becoming a prevalent research object in robots because of its unique configuration advantages and performance characteristics. It is possible to form robot configurations with different functions by reconfiguring functional modul...
Mission planning is the guidance for a UAV team to perform missions, which plays the most critical role in military and civil applications. For complex tasks, it requires heterogeneous cooperative multi-UAVs to satisfy several mission requirements. M...
A new multi-robot path planning (MRPP) algorithm for 2D static environments was developed and evaluated. It combines a roadmap method, utilising the visibility graph (VG), with the algebraic connectivity (second smallest eigenvalue (λ2)) of th...
In this paper, we focus on the parking path planning and path tracking control under parallel parking conditions with automatic parking system as the research object. In order to solve the problem of discontinuity of curvature in the path planning of...
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