CPSC 643-600: Motion Planning
(aka Robotics Programming)
Fall 1996

Reading Assignment #4
Potential Field Methods

This reading assignment covers Chapter 7 in the text and one additional paper. It is provided for guidance only. Also, note that we will not cover all sections listed in the same detail in the course, so use your judgement when doing the reading.

The paper is available in the Bright copy center as Set 18.

• Chapter 7: Sections 1, 2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5
• "Robot Motion Planning: A Distributed Representation Approach," J. Barraquand and J.-C. Latombe, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1991, pp. 628-649.