A Hierarchical Extension of the D ∗ Algorithm

In this paper a contribution to the practice of path planning using a new hierarchical extension of the D ∗ algorithm is introduced. A hierarchical graph is stratified into several abstraction levels and used to model environments for path planning. The hierarchical D∗ algorithm uses a downtop strat...

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Autores: Cagigas Muñiz, Daniel, Abascal, Julio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/93180
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/93180
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-005-2962-x
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Efficient path planning
Hierarchical search
D ∗ algorithm
Mobile robots
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Sumario:In this paper a contribution to the practice of path planning using a new hierarchical extension of the D ∗ algorithm is introduced. A hierarchical graph is stratified into several abstraction levels and used to model environments for path planning. The hierarchical D∗ algorithm uses a downtop strategy and a set of pre-calculated trajectories in order to improve performance. This allows optimality and specially lower computational time. It is experimentally proved how hierarchical search algorithms and on-line path planning algorithms based on topological abstractions can be combined successfully.