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- Title
Path Planning Algorithm for a Wheel-Legged Robot Based on the Theta* and Timed Elastic Band Algorithms.
- Authors
Sun, Junkai; Sun, Zezhou; Wei, Pengfei; Liu, Bin; Wang, Yaobing; Zhang, Tianyi; Yan, Chuliang
- Abstract
Aimed at the difficulty of path planning resulting from the variable configuration of the wheel-legged robot for future deep space explorations, this paper proposes a path planning algorithm based on the Theta* algorithm and Timed Elastic Band (TEB) algorithm. Firstly, the structure of the wheel-legged robot is briefly introduced, and the workspace of a single leg is analyzed. Secondly, a method to judge complete obstacles and incomplete obstacles according to the height of the obstacles is proposed alongside a method to search for virtual obstacles, to generate a grid map of the wheel and a grid map of the body, respectively. By dividing obstacles into complete obstacles and incomplete obstacles, the path planning of the wheel-legged robot is split into the planning of the body path and the planning of the wheel path. The body can be still simplified as a point by searching for the virtual obstacle, which avoids the difficulty of a planning path of a variable shape. Then, we proposed hierarchical planning and multiple optimization algorithms for the body path and wheel path based on the Theta* algorithm and TEB algorithm. The path can be optimized and smoothed effectively to obtain a shorter length and higher safety. On that basis, the proposed algorithm is simulated by Matlab. The results of simulations show that the algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively plan the path of the wheel-legged robot by using variable configurations for different types of obstacles. The path-planning algorithm of the wheel-legged robot proposed in this paper has a broad prospect for deep space exploration.
- Subjects
POTENTIAL field method (Robotics); OPTIMIZATION algorithms; ROBOTIC path planning; GRIDS (Cartography); SPACE exploration; ROBOTS
- Publication
Symmetry (20738994), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 5, p1091
- ISSN
2073-8994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/sym15051091