• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.887-895
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• 1995

Considering that the laser range finder has the excellent resolution with respect to angular and distance measurements, a sophisticated local path planning algorithm is achieved by subgoal and sub-subgoal searching methods. The subgoal searching finds the passable ways between obstacles and selects the optimal pathway in order to reduce the moving distanced from start point to given to given goal. On the other hand, the sub-subgoal searching corrects the path given in subgoal searching in the case of which the mobile robot will collide with obstacles. Also, the effectiveness of the established local path planning and local minimum avoiding algorithm are estimated by computer simulation and experimentation in complex environment.