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3Dana: Path Planning on 3D Surfaces

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Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXIII (SGAI 2016)

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An important issue when planning the tasks that a mobile robot has to reach is the path that it has to follow. In that sense, classical path planning algorithms focus on minimizing the total distance, generally assuming a flat terrain. Newer approaches also include traversability cost maps to define the terrain characteristics. However, this approach may generate unsafe paths in realistic environments as the terrain relief is lost in the discretisation. In this paper we will focus on the path planning problem when dealing with a Digital Terrain Model (DTM). Over such DTM we have developed 3Dana, an any-angle path planning algorithm. The objective is to obtain candidate paths that may be longer than the ones obtained with classical algorithms, but safer. Also, in 3Dana we can consider other parameters to maximize the path optimality: the maximum slope allowed by the robot and the heading changes during the path. These constraints allow discarding infeasible paths, while minimizing the heading changes of the robot. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm proposed, we present the results for the paths obtained for real Mars DTMs.

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Notes

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    The DTMs are publicly accessible in http://uahirise.org/dtm.

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    http://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_017147_1535.

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    http://www.uahirise.org/dtm/dtm.php?ID=ESP_030808_1535.

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Pablo Muñoz is supported by the European Space Agency under the Networking and Partnering Initiative “Cooperative Systems for Autonomous Exploration Missions” project 4000106544/ 12/NL/PA. The work is supported by MINECO project EphemeCH TIN2014-56494-C4-4-P and UAH 2015/00297/001. Authors want to thanks the reviewers for their valuable comments.

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  1. Departamento de Automática, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Pablo Muñoz & María D. R-Moreno

  2. Departamento de Matemáticas y Físicas, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Bonifacio Castaño

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Muñoz, P., R-Moreno, M.D., Castaño, B. (2016). 3Dana: Path Planning on 3D Surfaces. In: Bramer, M., Petridis, M. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXIII. SGAI 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47175-4_12

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