Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2024.3438094
Lokesh Kumar;Arup Kumar Sadhu;Ranjan Dasgupta
This article proposes an approach for local path planning. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed local path planner simultaneously learns and plans within the sensing range (SLPA-SR) during local path planning. SLPA-SR is the synergy between the local path planner, the dynamic window approach (DWA), the obstacle avoidance by velocity obstacle (VO) approach, and the proposed next-best reward learning (NBR) algorithms. In the proposed SLPA-SR, the DWA acts as an actuator and helps to balance exploration and exploitation in the proposed NBR. In the proposed NBR, dimensions of state and action do not need to be defined a priori