Motion Planning for Educational Robots

Ronald I. Greenberg
Jeffery M. Karp

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Abstract

This paper considers various simple ways of navigating in a 2-dimensional territory with a two-wheeled robot of a type typical in educational robotics. We determine shortest paths under various modes of operation and compare.