TY - GEN
T1 - Spark PRM: Using RRTs within PRMs to efficiently explore narrow passages
AU - Shi, Kensen
AU - Denny, Jory
AU - Amato, Nancy M.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-016-04
Acknowledgements: This research supported in part by NSF awards CNS-0551685, CCF-0833199, CCF-0830753, IIS-0916053, IIS-0917266, EFRI-1240483, RI-1217991, by NIH NCI R25 CA090301-11, by Chevron, IBM, Intel, Oracle/Sun and by Award KUS-C1-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). J. Denny supported in part by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - © 2014 IEEE. Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRMs) have been successful for many high-dimensional motion planning problems. However, they encounter difficulties when mapping narrow passages. While many PRM sampling methods have been proposed to increase the proportion of samples within narrow passages, such difficult planning areas still pose many challenges. We introduce a novel algorithm, Spark PRM, that sparks the growth of Rapidly-expanding Random Trees (RRTs) from narrow passage samples generated by a PRM. The RRT rapidly generates further narrow passage samples, ideally until the passage is fully mapped. After reaching a terminating condition, the tree stops growing and is added to the roadmap. Spark PRM is a general method that can be applied to all PRM variants. We study the benefits of Spark PRM with a variety of sampling strategies in a wide array of environments. We show significant speedups in computation time over RRT, Sampling-based Roadmap of Trees (SRT), and various PRM variants.
AB - © 2014 IEEE. Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRMs) have been successful for many high-dimensional motion planning problems. However, they encounter difficulties when mapping narrow passages. While many PRM sampling methods have been proposed to increase the proportion of samples within narrow passages, such difficult planning areas still pose many challenges. We introduce a novel algorithm, Spark PRM, that sparks the growth of Rapidly-expanding Random Trees (RRTs) from narrow passage samples generated by a PRM. The RRT rapidly generates further narrow passage samples, ideally until the passage is fully mapped. After reaching a terminating condition, the tree stops growing and is added to the roadmap. Spark PRM is a general method that can be applied to all PRM variants. We study the benefits of Spark PRM with a variety of sampling strategies in a wide array of environments. We show significant speedups in computation time over RRT, Sampling-based Roadmap of Trees (SRT), and various PRM variants.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599678
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6907540/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929208860&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907540
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907540
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781479936854
SP - 4659
EP - 4666
BT - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -