This unit of the course involves the investigation and implementation of the decision making components of robots - path planning and navigation. Now that a robot has a map of the environment and its pose in that environment, it needs to make decisions on how to get to certain places, while factoring in uncertainties in dynamic environments.
The following concepts were overviewed in this units 4 modules
- Classic Path Planning
- Sample-Based Planning
- Probabilistic Planning
- Final Project: Home Service Robot