Journal
ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 31-42Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2016.02.002
Keywords
Bezier curves; Continuous curvature; Mobile robot; Motion planning; Motion trajectory; Subdivision algorithm
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This paper focuses on generating smooth trajectories for a wheeled nonholonomic mobile robot using piecewise Bezier curves with properties ideally suited for this purpose. The developed algorithm generates smooth motion trajectories with C-2 continuous curvature. We consider a teleoperated wheeled mobile robot in an indoor environment with ceiling cameras for operator visibility. The motion trajectory is constrained by the operator-specified via points and path width. A method to automatically generate a trajectory based on only these two inputs is proposed and demonstrated. To improve the trackability of the mobile robot, we adopted a Bezier subdivision method and inserted a quintic Bezier segment into high-curvature areas. The proposed algorithm can be used for real-time obstacle-avoidance trajectory generation because it allows trajectory subdivision and arbitrarily setting of the second derivative at the start point. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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