Revisiting the Asymptotic Optimality of RRT$^*$

Autor: Marco Pavone, Emilio Frazzoli, Edward Schmerling, Lucas Janson, Kiril Solovey
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: ICRA
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1909.09688
Popis: RRT* is one of the most widely used sampling-based algorithms for asymptotically-optimal motion planning. This algorithm laid the foundations for optimality in motion planning as a whole, and inspired the development of numerous new algorithms in the field, many of which build upon RRT* itself. In this paper, we first identify a logical gap in the optimality proof of RRT*, which was developed in Karaman and Frazzoli (2011). Then, we present an alternative and mathematically-rigorous proof for asymptotic optimality. Our proof suggests that the connection radius used by RRT* should be increased from $\gamma \left(\frac{\log n}{n}\right)^{1/d}$ to $\gamma' \left(\frac{\log n}{n}\right)^{1/(d+1)}$ in order to account for the additional dimension of time that dictates the samples' ordering. Here $\gamma$, $\gamma'$, are constants, and $n$, $d$, are the number of samples and the dimension of the problem, respectively.
Comment: To appear in ICRA2020. This version includes a detailed counterexample that is not present in the conference version
Databáze: OpenAIRE