Predicting Partial Paths from Planning Problem Parameters

Stephen Jon Finney, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano‐Pérez · 2007

Many robot motion planning problems can be described as a combination of motion through relatively sparsely filled regions of configuration space and motion through tighter passages.Sample-based planners perform very effectively everywhere but in the tight passages.In this paper, we provide a method for parametrically describing workspace arrangements that are difficult for planners, and then learning a function that proposes partial paths through them as a function of the parameters.These suggested partial paths are then used to significantly speed up planning for new problems.

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