Class 1 (Wednesday, January 5) :
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Topics:
- What is motion planning
- Applications
- Main approaches
- Issues: complexity, modeling, integration
- Required Reading:
- J.C. Latombe. Motion Planning: A Journey of Robots,
Molecules, Digital Actors, and Other Artifacts.
International Journal of Robotics Research,
Special Issue on Robotics at the Millennium -- Part I,
18(11):1119-1128, November 1999
(ps file).
- Other Reading:
- D. Halperin, L.E. Kavraki, and J.C. Latombe.
Robot Algorithms.
CRC Handbook of Algorithms and Theory of Computation,
M. Atallah (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Chapter 21, 1998
(ps file).
- Powerpoint slides