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Distance-Optimal Navigation in an Unknown Environment Without Sensing Distances
RAFAEL ERIC MURRIETA CID
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Optimización
This paper considers what can be accomplished using a mobile robot that has limited sensing. For navigation and mapping, the robot has only one sensor, which tracks the directions of depth discontinuities. There are no coordinates, and the robot is given a motion primitive that allows it to move toward discontinuities. The robot is incapable of performing localization or measuring any distances or angles. Nevertheless, when dropped into an unknown planar environment, the robot builds a data structure, called the Gap Navigation Tree, which enables it to navigate optimally in terms of Euclidean distance traveled. In a sense, the robot is able to learn the critical information contained in the classical shortest-path roadmap, although surprisingly it is unable to extract metric information. We prove these results for the case of a point robot placed into a simply connected, piecewise- analytic planar environment. The case of multiply connected environments is also addressed, in which it is shown that further sensing assumptions are needed. Due to the limited sensor given to the robot, globally optimal navigation is impossible; however, our approach achieves locally optimal (within a homotopy class) navigation, which is the best that is theoretically possible under this robot model.
IEEE
2007
Artículo
Inglés
Investigadores
LENGUAJES ALGORÍTMICOS
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Aparece en las colecciones: Ciencias de la Computación

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