Pub Date : 2007-06-27DOI: 10.15607/RSS.2007.III.030
R. Alterovitz, T. Siméon, Ken Goldberg
We present a new motion planning framework that explicitly considers uncertainty in robot motion to maximize the probability of avoiding collisions and successfully reaching a goal. In many motion planning applications ranging from maneuvering vehicles over unfamiliar terrain to steering flexible medical needles through human tissue, the response of a robot to commanded actions cannot be precisely predicted. We propose to build a roadmap by sampling collision-free states in the configuration space and then locally sampling motions at each state to estimate state transition probabilities for each possible action. Given a query specifying initial and goal configurations, we use the roadmap to formulate a Markov Decision Process (MDP), which we solve using Infinite Horizon Dynamic Programming in polynomial time to compute stochastically optimal plans. The Stochastic Motion Roadmap (SMRM) thus combines a sampling-based roadmap representation of the configuration space, as in PRM's, with the well-established theory of MDP's. Generating both states and transition probabilities by sampling is far more flexible than previous Markov motion planning approaches based on problem-specific or grid-based discretizations. In this paper, we formulate SMRM and demonstrate it by generating non-holonomic plans for steerable needles, a new class of medical needles that follow curved paths through soft tissue and can be modeled as a variant of a Dubins car. Using randomized simulations, we show that SMRM is computationally faster than a previously reported MDP method and confirm that SMRM generates motion plans with a significantly higher probability of success compared to shortest-path plans.
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