Towards Optimal Curvature-Constrained Tours in Robotic Applications

Duration: 2019–2022

Description

The goal of the project is to develop a multi-goal planning framework to provide optimal or near-optimal curvature-constrained tours in robotic applications particularly motivated by mission planning for unmanned aerial vehicles and motion planning of steerable needle. Through the project objectives, we aim to deliver a computationally efficient solution to the particular robotic variants of the traveling salesman problem in which individual tours respect motion constraints of real robotic systems. In particular, we will focus on relatively small instances of the computationally challenging planning problem with the specific aim to deliver tight lower bounds and solution quality estimation.

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