• DocumentCode
    2934161
  • Title

    Physical Path Planning Using the GNATs

  • Author

    O´Hara, Keith J. ; Bigio, Victor L. ; Dodson, Eric R. ; Irani, Arya J. ; Walker, Daniel B. ; Balch, Tucker R.

  • Author_Institution
    The BORG Lab College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332–0250; Email: kjohara@cc.gatech.edu
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    18-22 April 2005
  • Firstpage
    709
  • Lastpage
    714
  • Abstract
    We continue our investigation into the application of pervasive, embedded networks to support multi-robot tasks. In this work we use a new a hardware platform, the GNATs, to aid in path planning. We have implemented a physical path planning algorithm on the GNATs previously studied in simulation. A distributed version of the wavefront path planning algorithm is used to propagate paths throughout the network, thereby planning a path in the real world. This creates a graph of traversable paths that are nearly optimal in a dynamic environment.
  • Keywords
    Multi-Robot Systems; Path Planning; Sensor Networks; Computer networks; Embedded computing; Hardware; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Multirobot systems; Navigation; Path planning; Pervasive computing; Robot kinematics; Multi-Robot Systems; Path Planning; Sensor Networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8914-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570201
  • Filename
    1570201