Introduction to Robotics
Real life
Robot path planning is already on your street
You will meet robot path planning on the way home tonight
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Lesson notes
Key points
- Robot vacuum at home: It maps your room and plans a route around chairs so it covers every floor tile.
- Warehouse delivery robots: Hundreds of robots plan collision-free paths so shelves reach packers without traffic jams.
- Autonomous mine haul trucks: Driverless trucks in big mines plan routes between pit and dump, avoiding people and machines.
Takeaway: Path planning finds a safe route from start to goal, from homes to mines.
Quick check: A driverless mine truck chooses a safe route to the dump. What idea is this?
- Path planning
- Gear reduction
- Encoder calibration
Choosing a collision-free route from start to goal is path planning.
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