Motion Coordination & Planning

This course will cover aspects of path planning, dynamic vehicle routing, and coordination for mobile robots. Topics include: 1) Path planning: graph search methods; traveling salesman problems 2) Multi-robot coordination: the consensus and rendezvous problems; sensor coverage; workspace partitioning/load balancing. 3) Dynamic vehicle routing: overview of Poisson processes and birth- death processes; path planning for tasks arriving in real-time; relation to automated material handling, mobility-on-demand.