Recursive Path Planning Using Reduced States for Car-like Vehicles on Grid Maps

by Sangyol Yoon, Sung-Eui Yoon, Unghui Lee, and David Hyunchul Shim
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015

This figure shows our autonomous vehicle that we have tested our path planning method.

Abstract

We present a novel path planning method, K*, for efficiently generating a path considering the kinematic constraints and shape of a car-like vehicle. Our method is based on a kinematics-aware node expansion method that also checks collisions based on the shape of a vehicle. We present two different heuristics considering the kinematics of the vehicle simultaneously w/ and w/o obstacles. Especially for complex environments that have a complex configuration of obstacles and even have narrow passage, we recursively identify intermediate goals and in-between nodes that pass through the narrow passage for computing a path to the goal. We have demonstrated benefits of our method in various simulations and experimental results with an autonomous vehicle. Furthermore, we have shown that our method is able to efficiently generate a collision-free path that the vehicle can follow even for complex environments with narrow passage.

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Sangyol Yoon, Sung-Eui Yoon, Unghui Lee, and David Hyunchul Shim
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015

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