Present Situation and Future Develepment of Mobile Robot Path Planning Technology

The research of mobile robot technology is the hot topic recently. Mobile robot path planning technology is one of the important domains in mobile robot technologies' research. It includes two parts: one is global path planning based on model in which the environment of the robot is certain and the other is local path planning based on sensor in which the environment of the robot is uncertain. The classification and present situation of mobile robot is summarized. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of these algorithms are pointed out, and also the algorithms is improved. At last, the trend of mobile robot path planning is described.