PaintPath: Defining Path Directionality in Maps for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Riley Bowyer,Thomas Lowe,Paulo Borges,Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay,Tobias Löw,David Haddon,Riley Bowyer,Thomas Lowe,Paulo Borges,Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay,Tobias Löw,David Haddon

Directionality in path planning is essential for efficient autonomous navigation in a number of real-world environments. In many map-based navigation scenarios, the viable path from a given point A to point B is not the same as the viable path from B to A. We present a method that automatically incorporates preferred navigation directionality into a path planning costmap. This `preference' is repr...