Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 3949-3957.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.12.25

• Guidance, Navigation and Control • Previous Articles    

Coverage path planning based on improved cellular decomposition

Jingyu WU1,2, Shiqiang ZHU2,3, Wei SONG2,3,*, Haolei SHI4, Zenan WU4   

  1. 1. Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316021, China
    2. Robotics Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315400, China
    3. Zhijiang Lab, Hangzhou 311121, China
    4. Zhoushan Institute of Calibration and Testing for Qualitative and Technical Supervision, Zhoushan 316013, China
  • Received:2022-11-22 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Wei SONG

Abstract:

When the traditional cellular decomposition method is used for complete coverage path planning in a static known environment, if the obstacles are irregularly distributed or many concave obstacles exist in the environment, the number of cells obtained is large. This finally leads to much redundancy and unnecessary steering in the final path. Firstly, the grid map is decomposed into several path segments, each of the path segment is composed of grids located in the same row and adjacent to the left and right. Secondly, these path fragment are merged for generating cells. Thirdly, based on greedy algorithm and topological map, the traversal order between cells is solved three times to merge and to reduce the number of cells, and the local path is optimized. Finally, the planning of traversal path is completed. Simulation results show that the algorithm is effective and the planned path has less redundancy and steering times.

Key words: complete coverage path planning, cellular decomposition, cellular mergence, greedy algorithm

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