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 the 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.
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