Robot Motion Planning and Control

Robot Motion Planning and Control， Laboratoire d'Analye et d'Architecture des Systemes Centre National de la Recherche Scientique LAAS report 97438 Foreword How can a robot decide what motions to perform in order to achieve tasks in the physical world ? The existing industrial robot programming systems still have very limited motion planning capabilities. Moreover the eld of robotics is growing: space exploration, undersea work, intervention in hazardous environments, servicing robotics : : : Motion planning appears as one of th e components for the necessary autonomy of the robots in such real contexts. It is also a fundamental issue in robot simulation software to help work cell designers to determine collision free paths for robots performing specic tasks.