An Introduction to Sampling based Motion Planning Algorithms
Requirements
- No programming experience needed, I will teach you everything from scratch.
- It is preferred to already have Python 3.7.4 installed along with packages Numpy (1.16.x), Matplotlib (3.1.x)
Description
Motion planning or path planning is an engineering field which deals with developing computational algorithms to calculate a path or a trajectory for a robot or any other autonomous vehicle. In this course you will learn the well known Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) and RRT* algorithms. These are sampling based algorithms unlike search based algorithms (A*), and are used to plan a path from a start to an end location whilst avoiding obstacles. You will be implementing these algorithms in Python. If you do not have any background in programming that is okay as I will teach everything from scratch. There will be 3 interactive assignments in which you will get to test your algorithms. By the end of this course you will have a fundamental understanding of RRT based algorithms. The objective of these algorithms are to generate a path consisting of waypoints from a start to an end location. It will be required to have Python 3.7 along with Numpy and Matplotlib installed to complete the assignments in this course. I will briefly go over installing Python as well, however there are numerous resources which cover the details of setting up Python on your computer. Be sure to leave a rating when you finish. I look forward to seeing you in this course!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone with an interest in programming, robotics and autonomous vehicles
Instructor
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I have a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering in Control Theory and Simulation with 3 conference publications in the field of Model Predictive Control. My Bachelor's degree was also in Mechanical Engineering. I currently work as a Development Engineer at a defense contractor in Canada, building simulations and model based design architecture in Matlab, Simulink and C++. I have over 3 years of experience with modeling and simulation of mechanical and aerospace systems.
I have always had a strong passion for teaching ever since I started my YouTube Channel in 2016. My mission statement is to deliver high quality training material on complex engineering topics.