Survey on technology of mobile robot path planning

The technology of intelligent mobile robot path planning is one of the most important robot research areas. In this paper the methods of path planning are classified into four classes:Template based,artificial potential field based,map building based and artificial intelligent based approaches. First,the basic theories of the path planning methods are introduced briefly. Then,the advantages and limitations of the methods are pointed out. Finally,the technology development trends of intelligent mobile robot path planning are given.