Robot path planning by integrating the artificial potential field approach with simulated annealing

Abstract

This paper presents a path planning approach which integrates the potential field and simulated annealing methods for robots in static environments. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is verified through simulations. Also, the effects of various annealing parameters are studied. Despite the limited nature of our experiments, they may provide preliminary insight into how best to adapt the simulated annealing technique to robot path planning.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>