Composition of local potential functions for global robot control and navigation - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Composition of local potential functions for global robot control and navigation

David C. Conner, Alfred Rizzi, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 3546 - 3551, October, 2003

Abstract

This paper develops a method of composing simple control policies, applicable over a limited region in a dynamical system's free space, such that the resulting composition completely solves the navigation and control problem for the given system operating in a constrained environment. The resulting control policy deployment induces a global control policy that brings the system to the goal, provided that there is a single connected component of the free space containing both the start and goal configurations. In this paper, control policies for both kinematic and simple dynamical systems are developed. This work assumes that the initial velocities are somewhat aligned with the desired velocity vector field. We conclude by offering an outline of an approach for accommodating arbitrary dynamical constraints and initial conditions.

BibTeX

@conference{Conner-2003-8781,
author = {David C. Conner and Alfred Rizzi and Howie Choset},
title = {Composition of local potential functions for global robot control and navigation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2003},
month = {October},
volume = {3},
pages = {3546 - 3551},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {mobile robots, navigation, potential functions, hybrid control},
}