Real-time obstacle avoidance using harmonic potential functions
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
- Vol. 8 (3), 338-349
- https://doi.org/10.1109/70.143352
Abstract
A novel formulation of the artificial potential approach to the obstacle avoidance problem for a mobile robot or a manipulator in a known environment is presented. Previous formulations of artificial potentials for obstacle avoidance have exhibited local minima in a cluttered environment. To build an artificial potential field, the authors use harmonic functions that completely eliminate local minima even for a cluttered environment. The panel method is used to represent arbitrarily shaped obstacles and to derive the potential over the whole space. Based on this potential function, an elegant control strategy for the real-time control of a robot is proposed. Simulation results are presented for a bar-shaped mobile robot and a three-degree-of-freedom planar redundant manipulator.Keywords
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