Homework 3
16-735 Robotic Motion Planning
Howie Choset

Handout: Wed Sep 12
Due: Mon Sep 24th


For a two-dimensional configuration space, implement the attractive/repulsive potential function of your choice.

On your web page, show at least two movies - one that illustrates a successful planning episode, and one that fails due to local minima. Include on your web page a brief description (pdf file or html ONLY) of your approach. This report should include all relevant equations and algorithm descriptions, along with a description of any parameters used by your algorithm.

In addition to the required explanations, explain why you chose this particular potential function algorithm.

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