Uma abordagem inspirada no recozimento determinístico para escapar de mínimos locais em navegação por campos potenciais artificiais

Abstract

The Artificial Potential Fields approach is widely used in mobile robot navigation due to its easy implementation and low computational cost. In this approach, the environment is seen as a potential surface, where the goal point is modeled as an attractor point and the obstacles are considered repulsor points. A potential field function is used to model all the environment, calculating the in uence over the robot. The force that moves the robot is the descendent gradient of the field. Local minima appear when this gradient (the force) becomes equal to zero. This situation prevents the robot from arriving at the goal point. This work presents a new algorithm to escape from local minima points in the environment. This new algorithm is inspired in the deterministic annealing algorithm. A comparative study between the developed method and two known methods, simulated annealing to escape from local minima, and the method of virtual obstacle, is carried out. The results show that the proposed algorithm can be used to perform local minima escape, since this approach was capable to produce satisfactory results when compared with other classical existent solutions.