학술논문

One-Shot Multi-Path Planning Using Fully Convolutional Networks in a Comparison to Other Algorithms
Document Type
article
Source
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Vol 14 (2021)
Subject
multi-source single-target path planning
multi-agent systems
robotics
neural path planning
mazes
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
Language
English
ISSN
1662-5218
Abstract
Path planning plays a crucial role in many applications in robotics for example for planning an arm movement or for navigation. Most of the existing approaches to solve this problem are iterative, where a path is generated by prediction of the next state from the current state. Moreover, in case of multi-agent systems, paths are usually planned for each agent separately (decentralized approach). In case of centralized approaches, paths are computed for each agent simultaneously by solving a complex optimization problem, which does not scale well when the number of agents increases. In contrast to this, we propose a novel method, using a homogeneous, convolutional neural network, which allows generation of complete paths, even for more than one agent, in one-shot, i.e., with a single prediction step. First we consider single path planning in 2D and 3D mazes. Here, we show that our method is able to successfully generate optimal or close to optimal (in most of the cases