Study on Conflict-free path planning for picking robots based on traffic rules
Shen Guicheng, Zhen Tao Yu, Lisen Gong · 2020
With the rapid development of Electronic Commerce and Logistics in China, it has become an inevitable trend to use robots to pick goods in distribution centers, and multi-robot conflict-free path planning is the key point to this application. Based on the analysis of existing algorithms for multi-robot path planning, this paper combines advantages of search-based methods and rule-based methods, and proposes an algorithm based on traffic rules. Experiment results show that this algorithm is fast and suitable for distribution centers with lots of robots, which can continually plan paths for robots.