Mobile Robot Path Finding using Nature Inspired Algorithms - A Review

Abstract

In today’s world, Mobile Robot has been widely used for various purposes across several aspects of life. The environments could be static and dynamic. Path planning for mobile robot is a very important problem in robotics. Path Planning for robot could be referred to the determination of a path; a robot takes in to perform a task given a set of key inputs. To find the best and optimal path from the starting point to the goal point, such that time and distance is reduce, in any given environment avoiding collision with obstacles is an interesting area for research. This research presents a review on the application of nature inspired algorithms in solving the problem of mobile robot path planning such that the robot reaches the target station from source station without collision with obstacles. The future of these nature-inspired algorithms on mobile robot is also discussed.