Abstract-This paper addresses the problem of group path planning while maintaining group coherence and persistence. Group coherence ensures that a group minimizes both longitudinal and lateral dispersion, and is achieved with the introduction of a deformation penalty to the cost formulation. When the deformation penalty is significantly high, a group may split and later merge. Group persistence is modeled by introducing split and merge actions in the action space, and adding a split penalty to the cost measure. We formulate the problem domain (state, action space, and cost formulation), present our path planning approach for coherent and persistent groups, and provide empirical results demonstrating the capabilities of our method on a variety of challenging scenarios.
Huang et al. REF present a path-planning method to simulate coherent and persistent groups.
Path planning for coherent and persistent groups
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Mathematics Computer Science