A Guide to Heuristic-based Path Planning - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A Guide to Heuristic-based Path Planning

Workshop Paper, ICAPS '05 Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Systems, June, 2005

Abstract

We describe a family of recently developed heuristic-based algorithms used for path planning in the real world. We discuss the fundamental similarities between static algorithms (e.g. A*), replanning algorithms (e.g. D*), anytime algorithms (e.g. ARA*), and anytime replanning algorithms (e.g. AD*). We introduce the motivation behind each class of algorithms, discuss their use on real robotic systems, and highlight their practical benefits and disadvantages.

BibTeX

@workshop{Ferguson-2005-9201,
author = {David Ferguson and Maxim Likhachev and Anthony (Tony) Stentz},
title = {A Guide to Heuristic-based Path Planning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICAPS '05 Workshop on Planning under Uncertainty for Autonomous Systems},
year = {2005},
month = {June},
}