- Attractive/Repulsive potentials
- Search techniques
- Navigation functions
- Basic paper on potential fields:
O. Khatib. Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots. International Journal of Robotics Research 5(1):90-98, 1986
- Fast planner based on precomputed navigation function:
J. Lengyel, M. Reichert, B.R. Donald, and D. Greenberg. Real-Time Robot Motion Planning Using Rasterizing Computer Graphics Hardware. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'90, Dallas (TX), pages 327-336, 1990 (ps file).
- J.C. Latombe. Robot Motion Planning, Kluwer Academic Pub.,
Boston (MA), 1991. Chapter 7.