Publication

Timed-elastic bands for manipulation motion planning

Journal Article (2019)

Journal

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Pages

3513-3520

Volume

4

Number

4

Doc link

https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2927956

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Authors

Abstract

Motion planning is one of the main problems studied in the field of robotics. However, it is still challenging for the state-of-the-art methods to handle multiple conditions that allow better paths to be found. For example, considering joint limits, path smoothness and a mixture of Cartesian and joint-space constraints at the same time pose a significant challenge for many of them. This letter proposes to use timed-elastic bands for representing the manipulation motion planning problem, allowing to apply continuously optimized constraints to the problem during the search for a solution. Due to the nature of our method, it is highly extensible with new constraints or optimization objectives. The proposed approach is compared against state-of-the-art methods in various manipulation scenarios. The results show that it is more consistent and less variant, while performing in a comparable manner to that of the state of the art. This behavior allows the proposed method to set a lower-bound performance guarantee for other methods to build upon.

Categories

mobile robots.

Author keywords

Motion and path planning, mobile manipulation, collision avoidance, domestic robots

Scientific reference

B. Magyar, N. Tsiogkas, J. Deray, S. Pfeiffer and D. Lane. Timed-elastic bands for manipulation motion planning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 4(4): 3513-3520, 2019.