Class #1: Overview
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These images illustrate
the application of motion planning to (from top to bottom, left to right):
programming of industrial robots, design for manufacturing (disassembly test), radiosurgery, autonomous climbing robot, humanoid robot,
animation of digital actors, modular reconfigurable robots, and verification of
building codes (access for handicapped persons).
- Topics:
- What is motion planning?
- Basic problem and variants
- Applications - Required
- 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. [pdf]
- Other
- D. Halperin,
L.E. Kavraki, and J.C. Latombe. Robotics. CRC
Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, J.E. Goodman and J.
O'Rourke (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Chapter 41, pp. 755-778,
1997. [pdf]
- Powerpoint slides