Visibility-based Optimal Path and Motion Planning

• Main Author: Wang, Paul Keng-Chieh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 568
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.

This monograph deals with various visibility-based path and motion planning problems motivated by real-world applications such as exploration and mapping planetary surfaces, environmental surveillance using stationary or mobile robots, and imaging of global air/pollutant circulation. The formulation...

Table of Contents:

• Visibility-Based Optimal Path and Motion Planning
• Mathematical Preliminaries
• Static Optimal Visibility Problems
• Visibility-based Optimal Path Planning
• Visibility-based Optimal Motion Planning
• Multiple Observer Cooperative & Non-Cooperative Optimal Motion Planning.