How Do Robots Know Where To Go?

How Do Robots Know Where To Go?
  1. Big idea: Robots navigate through the world using a path planner to search for routes around obstacles and an execution monitor to ensure that the robot stays on the path.
  2. Underlying technologies:
    1. RRTs (Rapidly-exploring Random Trees)
  3. Learning goal: Students will understand
    1. Concept of a stochastic search algorithm
    2. How the RRT-Connect algorithm is used for path planning, and how planning can fail.
  4. Skill goals: Students will be able to:
    1. Invoke one of the Pilot’s path planners to plan and execute paths through environments containing obstacles.