Motion planning for a cable driven parallel multiple manipulator emulating a swarm of MAVs

The Cable-Driven Parallel Multiple Manipulator is a supporting tool for development of control and navigation strategies of a swarm of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV). A crucial part of the system is a motion planning required to move the effectors representing individual MAVs to positions determined by a high-level algorithm controlling behavior of the swarm. Due to many degrees of freedom of such a system, finding feasible trajectories requires search in a high-dimensional configuration space, which is solved using a planner based on Rapidly Exploring Random Tree algorithm (RRT). To ensure fast planning for the multiple effectors, several novel expansion strategies of the RRT-based planner are discussed in the paper.