CPSC 8810 Programming Assignment 4 – Sampling-Based Navigation solution

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the fourth assignment, you will implement the probabilistic roadmap method to answer motion
planning queries for a 2D robot moving in an environment filled with static obstacles. In the basic
requirements, you will assume that the robot is a translating disk, whereas in the advanced extension
(extra credits), the robot is a 2D rigid body capable of both translation and rotation.
In the zipped file prm.zip, you will find the scenario that you can use to test your code. I have
also provided Python code, that reads and visualizes scenarios along with other GUI functionality.
You can also find helper functions in utils.py, and a small library for handling roadmaps in
graph.py.
Basic Requirements
Your task is modify the prmplanner.py file and implement the two phases of PRM:
1. Construction phase: Modify the build_roadmap function to build a roadmap for the given
problem that captures the connectivity of the free configuration space. To construct the
roadmap, you have to make a number of choices such as the sampling strategy that you want
to employ, how to select nearby vertices for a given sample, and the local planner that you
can use to try to connect two vertices and add a new edge to the roadmap. Please see lectures
14 and 15 for more details.
2. Query phase: Modify the find_path function to plan a path for a given initial configuration to
a given goal configuration. Your code should connect the two configurations to the roadmap
and then search for a path using a search algorithm such as A*.
You should test your code with the default query, as well as with random ones. You are also
welcome to create your own scenes and load them to the framework. Before coding, I suggest you
spend some time to familiarize yourself with the Roadmap class in graph.py, as you will be needing
it in both phases. As usual, please include a brief Readme file to report certain aspects of your code
and implementation decisions that you made.
Extra credits (3pts)
Set the disk_robot flag to False to change the robot from a disk to a rigid body robot that can
both translate and rotate on the 2d plane. While your query phase can be used as is, certain choices
made in the construction phase need to be revisited. In the disk case, the Euclidean distance that
the origin of the robot travels can be used to determine nearby neighbors. However, the distance
function needs to be revised here as the robot can also rotate. One approach is to use a weighted
combination of the translational distance and the rotational distance of the robot. A different
solution is to use a metric that estimates the displacement of the robot in the workspace (see
lecture 15). In terms of the local planner, as the robot is holonomic, you can still use a straight line
to connect two configurations and check for collisions. Though, extra care should be taken when
interpolating between two angles as you can either rotate clockwise or counter clockwise to reach a
target orientation.
Submission
Submit the assignment using Canvas. You can work in pairs if you want to. If you do so, though,
please let us know in advance. Along with your code, please upload a Readme file documenting the
choices that you made in the two phases of PRM.
Help
If you get stuck, please do not hesitate to contact us for help, and stop by during the office hours.
We also encourage you to post questions and initiate discussions on Canvas. Your colleagues are
also there to help you.