Optimized-Motion Planning: Theory and Implementation

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From ships and airplanes to robots and space vehicles…it’s all here: how to design the safest and most efficient path trajectories possible. Optimized-Motion Planning is the first handbook to the practical specifics of motion planning that gives design engineers hands-on guidance for solving real motion planning problems in a 3-dimensional space. Complete with a disk of software programs, this unique guide allows users to design, test, and implement possible solutions, useful in a host of contexts, especially tool path planning. The nucleus of the book consists of several motion planning algorithms (with sample programs for the different algorithms on disk), which have been designed to:Provide optimized solutions for a wide range of problems, including motion planning for multibody systems in 3-dimensional spaceAutomatically comply with given dynamic constraintsProgress logically from a simple case of a point moving between polygons in 2-dimensional space to the more complex cases of nonpoint objects moving between 3-dimensional obstaclesOptimized-Motion Planning is a practical, complete, and fascinating introduction to designing the safest trajectories for the vehicles that support our way of life as well as a guidebook to one of the new technological imperatives of the coming century.