학술논문

Robot navigation using a pressure generated mechanical stress field: "the biharmonic potential approach"
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Robotics and automation Robotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on. :124-129 vol.1 1994
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Navigation
Stress
Service robots
Path planning
Feature extraction
Geometry
Educational institutions
Laboratories
Solids
Fasteners
Language
Abstract
This paper suggests a new approach for navigation in a known environment. The approach is based on the biharmonic potential fields which govern mechanical stress fields in homogeneous solids. It is observed that a path generated by such a technique is free of sharp turns that may appear in its counterpart that is generated from an underlying harmonic potential. This in turns makes a path from the former more dynamically suitable for traversal. Also, the navigation field is extracted from the biharmonic potential in a manner that bypass the rapidly vanishing field problem which is encountered in the harmonic potential approach. Development of the biharmonic approach, simulation results, as well as comparison with the Neumann and Dirichlet setting of the harmonic approach are provided.ETX