PathBench: a benchmarking platform for classical and learned path planning algorithms
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Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Path planning is a key component in mobile robotics. A wide range of path planning algorithms exist, but few attempts have been made to benchmark the algorithms holistically or unify their interface. Moreover, with the recent advances in deep neural networks, there is an urgent need to facilitate the development and benchmarking of such learning-based planning algorithms. This paper presents PathBench, a platform for developing, visualizing, training, testing, and benchmarking of existing and future, classical and learned 2D and 3D path planning algorithms, while offering support for Robot Operating System (ROS). Many existing path planning algorithms are supported; e.g. A*, wavefront, rapidly-exploring random tree, value iteration networks, gated path planning networks; and integrating new algorithms is easy and clearly specified. We demonstrate the benchmarking capability of PathBench by comparing implemented classical and learned algorithms for metrics, such as path length, success rate, computational time and path deviation. These evaluations are done on built-in PathBench maps and external path planning environments from video games and real world databases. PathBench is open source 1 .
Date Issued
2021-07-05
Date Acceptance
2021-07-01
Citation
2021 18th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), 2021, pp.79-86
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
79
End Page
86
Journal / Book Title
2021 18th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV)
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9469507
Source
2021 18th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV)
Subjects
cs.RO
cs.RO
cs.LG
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-05-26
Finish Date
2021-05-28
Coverage Spatial
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Date Publish Online
2021-07-05