Session 1a: Space Robotics

Towards an Anisotropic Fast Marching Method applied to the Path Planning Task for Mars Rovers

Santiago Garrido, Fernando Martin, David Alvarez, Luis Moreno

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Date: September 29, 11:45 - 12:15
Room: Sala de Relaciones Internacionales

This paper presents the application of the Anisotropic Fast Marching Method, to the path planning problem or robots moving in spatial environments. The resulting trajectory has to take into account the slope of the terrain in a tensorial way because at the points on a mountainside there are two main slopes: the maximum, which is the slope of the gradient and the minimum slope that is slope to the perpendicular to the gradient. The Romans used flocks of cows to make Roman roads and make the descent of the road as small as possible.This method works in a similar way.