Summarization for Present Situation and Future Development of Path Planning Technology

Path planning technology is one of the important domains in virtual assembling technologies' research and 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 path planning is summarized.In addition,the advantages and disadvantages of these algorithms are pointed out.At last,the trend of path planning is described.