RT Journal Article T1 Path Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation using Voronoi Diagram and Fast Marching A1 Garrido Bullón, Luis Santiago A1 Moreno Lorente, Luis Enrique A1 Blanco Rojas, María Dolores A1 Jurewicz Slupska, Piotr Pawel AB For navigation in complex environments, a robot need s to reach a compromise between the need for having efficient and optimized trajectories and t he need for reacting to unexpected events. This paper presents a new sensor-based Path Planner w hich results in a fast local or global motion planning able to incorporate the new obstacle information. In the first step the safest areas in the environment are extracted by means of a Vorono i Diagram. In the second step the Fast Marching Method is applied to the Voronoi extracted a reas in order to obtain the path. The method combines map-based and sensor-based planning o perations to provide a reliable motion plan, while it operates at the sensor frequency. The m ain characteristics are speed and reliability, since the map dimensions are reduced to an almost uni dimensional map and this map represents the safest areas in the environment for moving the robot. In addition, the Voronoi Diagram can be calculated in open areas, and with all kind of shaped obstacles, which allows to apply the proposed planning method in complex environments wher e other methods of planning based on Voronoi do not work. PB CSC Publishers SN 2180-1312 YR 2011 FD 2011-04-04 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/18721 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/18721 LA eng NO This work has been supported by the CAM Project S2009/DPI-1559/ROBOCITY2030 II DS e-Archivo RD 20 may. 2024