A Survey on Path Planning for Mobile Robot Systems

During the past three decades, it is witnessed that a lot of intense interests and quick advancements have been poured down to the field of robot vehicles. Multiple types of robots, like sweeping robots, greeting robots and robotic toys have become more and more common in people's daily life. As a core part of robot technology, path planning is to find a fast and safe route from the initial position to the target destination. Motivated by making convenience for scholars who are ambitious to study the path planning technologies, this paper has conducted a round review on this topic. Throughout this paper, the path planning technologies of robot vehicles have been divided into three categories, namely, traditional, intelligent and other approaches. After the main concerns of path planning are concluded for the mobile robot vehicles, the future research directions are subsequently discussed.