A survey of autonomous mobile robot path planning approaches

Abstract

Navigation is one of the pivotal and defining features of an autonomous robot. Essentially, the autonomous robot navigation problem can be divided into four parts namely: perception, localization, cognition and path planning, out of which path planning is important and has been a constant research topic. In this paper, a brief introduction and review of some of the path planning approaches (both classical and heuristic) is provided. The advantages and disadvantages of the methods are discussed.