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Planning of collision free and feasible robot motions

Monday, 11 August 2025

Lecturers & Schedule

Henrik Gordon Petersen (HP)

Aljaz Kramberger (AK)

Kasper Støy (KS)

Time

Activity

08:30

Welcome and Organizational matters (HP)

08:45 – 10:15

Lecture 1: Basic planning and trajectory concepts (HP)

  • Cartesian space and configuration space

  • Parametrizations of these spaces

  • Mapping between spaces

  • Linear interpolation with parabolic blends

  • Estimating cycle time costs

  • Why plan and interpolate in configuration space

10:30 – 12:00

Lecture 2: Trajectory planning for Robot Manipulators and Grasping (AK)

  • Interpolation for trajectories represented in Cartesian space

  • Cubic polynomial interpolation

  • Robotic grasping

  • Definine trajectories by Learning

12:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Lecture 3: Finding collision free paths (HP)

  • Point to point planning

  • Distance metric

  • Resolution property

  • Grid based and random points based sampling

  • Sample based planning methods in a nutshell

  • Collision testing and distance computations

  • Finding shortest paths in graphs
    Example of a planning method

14:15 – 15:45

Lecture 4: Behavior based robotics for easy programming (KS)

15:45

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Exercise on planning

17:30

End of the day