Robot motion planning: By J.-C. Latombe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1991. xviii + 651 pp. $95

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1049-9660
• DOI: 10.1016/1049-9660(91)90042-n

✦ Synopsis

are reviewed: the roadmap approach, the exact and approximate cell decomposition approaches, and the potential field ap-This monograph presents a broad treatment of path planning preach. Extensions of the basic problem dealing with moving problems. The basic problem treated is that of finding a colli-obstacles; multiple or articulated robots; movable objects; kinesion-free path for an object that can translate and rotate freely matic constraints; and uncertainty are also treated. The book among static obstacles in a two-or three-dimensional work-will be valuable to researchers in robotics and spatial reasoning.