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Christopher Jones

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IROS Conference 2000 Conference Paper

An adaptive framework for 'single shot' motion planning

Daniel Vallejo
Christopher Jones
Nancy M. Amato

This paper proposes an adaptive framework for single shot motion planning, i. e. , planning without preprocessing. This framework can be used in any situation, and in particular, is suitable for crowded environments in which the robot's free C-space has narrow corridors such as maintainability studies in complex 3D CAD models. Our iterative strategy adaptively selects a planner whose strengths match the current situation, and then, online, switches to a different planner when circumstances change. This requires techniques to evaluate the characteristics of the current query, and a set of planners which are characterized so that we can match the query with the best planner for it. Our experimental results in complex 3D CAD environments show that our strategy solves queries that none of the planners could solve on their own.

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ICRA Conference 1998 Conference Paper

Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods

Nancy M. Amato
O. Burçhan Bayazit
Lucia K. Dale
Christopher Jones
Daniel Vallejo

This paper presents a comparative evaluation of different distance metrics and local planners within the content of probabilistic roadmap methods for motion planning. Both C-space and workspace distance metrics and local planners are considered. The study concentrates on cluttered 3D workspaces, typical of mechanical designs. Our results include recommendations for selecting appropriate combinations of distance metrics and local planners for use in motion planning methods, particularly probabilistic roadmap methods. We find that each local planner makes some connections than none of the others do ndicating that better connected roadmaps will be constructed using multiple local planners. We propose a new local planning method, we call rotate-at-s, that outperforms the common straight-line in C-space method in crowded environments.

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