Excerpt from On-Line Motion Planning: Case of a Planar RodTask planning algorithms and strategies make up an important area of robotics research. Of great importance is the area of robot motion planning, sometimes also known as trajectory planning or collision avoidance. Simply stated, the problem is to navigate a mobile robot or robot arm manipulator through an environment from some initial position to some target position.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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