Journal of Sensor Science and Technology (센서학회지)

The Korean Sensors Society (한국센서학회)
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Practical Path-planning Framework Considering Waypoint Visibility for Indoor Autonomous Navigation using Two-dimensional LiDAR Sensors

경유지의 가시성을 고려한 2차원 라이다 센서 기반의 실용적인 경로 계획 프레임워크

  • Hyejeong Ryu (Department of Mechanical & Biomedical.Mechatronics Engineering, Kangwon National University)
  • 유혜정 (강원대학교 기계의용.메카트로닉스공학과)
  • Received : 2024.05.20
  • Accepted : 2024.06.03
  • Published : 2024.07.31
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Abstract

Path-planning, a critical component of mobile robot navigation, comprises both local and global planning. Previous studies primarily focused on enhancing the individual performance of these planners, avoiding obstacles, and computing an optimal global path from a starting position to a target position. In this study, we introduce a practical path-planning framework that employs a target planner to bridge the local and global planners; this enables mobile robots to navigate seamlessly and efficiently toward a global target position. The proposed target planner assesses the visibility of waypoints along the global path, and it selects a reachable navigation target, which can then be used to generate efficient control commands for the local planners. A visibility-based target planner can handle situations, wherein the current, target waypoint is occupied by unknown obstacles. Real-world experiments demonstrated that the proposed pathplanning framework with the visibility-based target planner allowed the robot to navigate to the final target position along a more efficient path than the framework without a target planner.

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이 성과는 정부(과학기술정보통신부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(No. 2022R1C1C1010931).

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