Path planning optimization for a mobile manipulator
Gonçalo Silva, Pedro Costa, Luís Freitas Rocha, José Lima · AIP conference proceedings · 2019
Nowadays, mobile manipulators are increasing its popularity on modern industries due to their ability to enhance process flexibility and performance. Mobile manipulators are a wide field of research and one of the main directions is trying to control the whole system as a single device. In this context, this paper addresses the problem of path planning of the end-effector of a mobile manipulator. The proposed approach is based on the integration of the kinematic chain of both the manipulator and the omni-directional base. At the end, a collision-free path planner for the mobile manipulator in complex and known environments with obstacles using A * is derived.