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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (13): 138-148.doi: 10.3901/JME.2020.13.138

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Voronoi Path Planning Based on Improved Skeleton Extraction

JIANG Lin1,2, LI Jun1, MA Xianzhong1, NIE Wenkang1, ZHU Jianyang1,2, LEI Bin1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Metallurgical Equipment and Control Technology of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081;
    2. Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081
  • Received:2020-01-15 Revised:2020-04-13 Online:2020-07-05 Published:2020-08-01

Abstract: An improved skeleton extraction algorithm is proposed to solve the problems that raster map-based path planning algorithms the robot navigation cannot meet the requirements of real-time and accuracy simultaneously, and robot storage is occupied due to the globle path generated by the original Voronoi diagram algorithm is too bloated and the route generated by the existing method of skeleton extraction is too redundant. Firstly, binarize the raster map with known prior information and carry out corrosion and expansion pretreatment, regenerating a new leaner skeleton. Then, the path of navigation planning with improved cubic spline is smoothed; the local path planner DWA algorithm is combined to realize robot navigation. The simulation and real environment experiments results show that the simplified skeleton is more concise than the original Voronoi diagram and the existing skeleton, the optimized path is smoother, which improves the stability and efficiency of the motion of the mobile robot, and guides the robot to move in the safest way.

Key words: Voronoi algorithm, binarize the raster map, corrosion and expansion pretreatment, streamline skeleton, smooth processing

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