RRT*FN (fixed nodes) - a novel path planning algorithm with effective memory utilization

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2013

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Adiyatov, O.
Varol, H. A.

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Nazarbayev University

Abstract

In this work, we present a modified version of the RRT* motion planning algorithm, which limits the memory required for storing the tree. We run the RRT* algorithm until the tree has grown to a predefined number of nodes and afterwards we remove a weak node whenever a high performance node is added. A simple two-dimensional navigation problem is used to show the operation of the algorithm. The algorithm was also applied to a high-dimensional redundant robot manipulation problem to show the efficacy. The results show that our algorithm outperforms RRT and comes close to RRT* with respect to the optimality of returned path, while needing much less number of nodes stored in the tree.

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first research week, robotics, RRT*

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