A Quadratic Regulator-Based Heuristic for Rapidly Exploring State Space
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Glassman, Elena L.; Tedrake, Russell Louis
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Kinodynamic planning algorithms like Rapidly-Exploring Randomized Trees (RRTs) hold the promise of finding feasible trajectories for rich dynamical systems with complex, nonconvex constraints. In practice, these algorithms perform very well on configuration space planning, but struggle to grow efficiently in systems with dynamics or differential constraints. This is due in part to the fact that the conventional distance metric, Euclidean distance, does not take into account system dynamics and constraints when identifying which node in the existing tree is capable of producing children closest to a given point in state space. We show that an affine quadratic regulator (AQR) design can be used to approximate the exact minimum-time distance pseudometric at a reasonable computational cost. We demonstrate improved exploration of the state spaces of the double integrator and simple pendulum when using this pseudometric within the RRT framework, but this improvement drops off as systems' nonlinearity and complexity increase. Future work includes exploring methods for approximating the exact minimum-time distance pseudometric that can reason about dynamics with higher-order terms.
Date issued
2010-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceJournal
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Glassman, Elena, and Russ Tedrake. “A Quadratic Regulator-based Heuristic for Rapidly Exploring State Space.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. 5021–5028. © Copyright 2010 IEEE
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ISBN
978-1-4244-5040-4
978-1-4244-5038-1
ISSN
1050-4729