scholarly journals An Improved VFF Approach for Robot Path Planning in Unknown and Dynamic Environments

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianjun Ni ◽  
Wenbo Wu ◽  
Jinrong Shen ◽  
Xinnan Fan
Keyword(s):  
Path Planning ◽  
Obstacle Avoidance ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Minimum Problem ◽  
Robot Path Planning ◽  
Virtual Force ◽  
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance ◽  
Dynamic Obstacle ◽  
Local Minimum Problem ◽  
Robot Path

Robot path planning in unknown and dynamic environments is one of the hot topics in the field of robot control. The virtual force field (VFF) is an efficient path planning method for robot. However, there are some shortcomings of the traditional VFF based methods, such as the local minimum problem and the higher computational complexity, in dealing with the dynamic obstacle avoidance. In this paper, an improved VFF approach is proposed for the real-time robot path planning, where the environment is unknown and changing. An area ratio parameter is introduced into the proposed VFF based approach, where the size of the robot and obstacles are considered. Furthermore, a fuzzy control module is added, to deal with the problem of obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments, by adjusting the rotation angle of the robot. Finally, some simulation experiments are carried out to validate and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals An Effective Dynamic Path Planning Approach for Mobile Robots Based on Ant Colony Fusion Dynamic Windows

Machines ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Liwei Yang ◽  
Lixia Fu ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Jianlin Mao ◽  
Ning Guo
Keyword(s):  
Path Planning ◽  
Obstacle Avoidance ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance ◽  
Dynamic Obstacle ◽  
Window Approach ◽  
Search Capability

To further improve the path planning of the mobile robot in complex dynamic environments, this paper proposes an enhanced hybrid algorithm by considering the excellent search capability of the ant colony optimization (ACO) for global paths and the advantages of the dynamic window approach (DWA) for local obstacle avoidance. Firstly, we establish a new dynamic environment model based on the motion characteristics of the obstacles. Secondly, we improve the traditional ACO from the pheromone update and heuristic function and then design a strategy to solve the deadlock problem. Considering the actual path requirements of the robot, a new path smoothing method is present. Finally, the robot modeled by DWA obtains navigation information from the global path, and we enhance its trajectory tracking capability and dynamic obstacle avoidance capability by improving the evaluation function. The simulation and experimental results show that our algorithm improves the robot's navigation capability, search capability, and dynamic obstacle avoidance capability in unknown and complex dynamic environments.

Space robot motion path planning based on fuzzy control algorithm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Baoyu Shi ◽  
Hongtao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Path Planning ◽  
Fuzzy Control ◽  
Obstacle Avoidance ◽  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Space Robot ◽  
Robot Motion ◽  
Robot Path Planning ◽  
Behavior Based ◽  
Fuzzy Control Algorithm ◽  
Robot Path

Path planning technology is one of the core technologies of intelligent space robot. Combining image recognition technology and artificial intelligence learning algorithm for robot path planning in unknown space environment has become one of the hot research issues. The purpose of this paper is to propose a spatial robot path planning method based on improved fuzzy control, aiming at the shortcomings of path planning in the current industrial space robot motion control process, and based on fuzzy control algorithm. This paper proposes a fuzzy obstacle avoidance method with speed feedback based on the original advantages of the fuzzy algorithm, which improves the obstacle avoidance performance of space robot under continuous obstacles. At the same time, we integrated the improved fuzzy obstacle avoidance strategy into the behavior-based control technology, making the avoidance become an independent behavioral unit. Divide the path planning into a series of relatively independent behaviors such as fuzzy obstacle avoidance, cruise, trend target, and deadlock by the behavior-based method. According to the interaction information between the space robot and the environment, each behavior acquires the dominance of the robot through the competition mechanism, making the robot complete the specific behavior at a certain moment, and finally realize the path planning. Furthermore, to improve the overall fault tolerance of the space, robot we introduced an elegant downgrade strategy, so that the robot can successfully complete the established task in the case of control command deterioration or failure of important information, avoiding the overall performance deterioration effectively. Therefore, through the simulation experiment of the virtual environment platform, MobotSim concluded that the improved algorithm has high efficiency, high security, and the planned path is more in line with the actual situation, and the method proposed in this paper can make the space robot successfully reach the target position and optimize the spatial path, it also has good robustness and effectiveness.

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