Randomized Motion Planning: Techniques and Applications
University of Padova
Course Homepage
Fall 2004

Instructor: Nancy Amato
email: amato@cs.tamu.edu
url: http://parasol.tamu.edu/~amato
off: Room 405, DEI/G
tel: +39 049 827 7942

Class Meeting:
Nov 12, 14:30-16:30, Sala Riunioni DEI/G
Nov 16 & 18, 11:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni 201 DEI/A
Nov 24, 11:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni 301 DEI/A
Nov 25, 12:00-14:00, Sala Riunioni 201 DEI/A
Nov 30, 11:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni 201 DEI/A

Course homepage: http://parasol.tamu.edu/~amato/Courses/padova04/

Handouts & Resources

• Syllabus html

• Lecture Notes
  
  • What is Motion Planning? ppt
  • The first set of notes is a brief introduction to motion planning. We will cover most of it. We will only cover selected portions of the remaining sets of notes - they are provided here as reference in case you are interested in going into any of the topics in more detail.
    • A Brief Introduction to Motion Planning pdf ps
    • Configuration Space pdf ps
    • Exact Cell Decomposition Methods pdf ps
    • Approximate Cell Decomposition Methods pdf ps
    • Roadmap Methods pdf ps
    • Potential Field Methods pdf ps
    • Probabilistic Roadmap Methods pdf ps
  • Probabilistic Roadmap Methods (PRMs) ppt
  • Medial Axis PRM (MAPRM) ppt
  • Tree-Based Methods ppt
  • A PRM-Based Method for Protein Folding ppt

• Reading Assignments and External References

• Project html