Perancangan Laluan Robot menggunakan Fungsi Harmonik melalui Kaedah Lelaran Sapuan Suku

Robot Path Planning using Harmonic Functions via Quarter Sweep Iterative Method

Authors

  • Azali Saudi Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
  • Jumat Sulaiman Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37134/jsml.vol5.1.2017

Keywords:

Perancangan laluan robot, fungsi-fungsi Harmonik, kaedah lelaran, sapuan separuh, sapuan suku, persamaan Laplace

Abstract

Kertas kajian ini mengemukakan aplikasi fungsi harmonik dalam menyelesaikan masalah perancangan laluan robot. Fungsi harmonik diperolehi dengan menyelesaikan persamaan Laplace. Dalam kajian ini, fungsi-fungsi harmonik bertindak sebagai nilai-nilai potensi pada setiap titik dalam persekitaran robot. Nilai-nilai potensi ini kemudiannya digunakan untuk mencari laluan dari titik mula sehinggalah ke titik destinasi yang telah ditetapkan. Bagi mendapatkan fungsi-fungsi harmonik ini, pendekatan yang paling biasa digunakan adalah kaedah beza terhingga iaitu lelaran Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel dan Successive Over-relaxation (SOR). Namun, kaedah-kaedah lelaran yang lazim ini terlalu perlahan, terutamanya apabila melibatkan persekitaran yang luas. Oleh itu, kajian ini mencadangkan kaedah yang lebih pantas menggunakan gabungan teknik lelaran sapuan suku dengan lelaran SOR. Keputusan ujikaji menunjukkan kaedah-kaedah yang dicadangkan ini telah berjaya mengurangkan masa pengiraan fungsi-fungsi harmonik secara drastik. Ini secara langsung telah meningkatkan prestasi keseluruhan algoritma perancangan laluan, terutamanya aspek masa perlaksanaan.

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This paper presents the application of harmonic functions in solving the robot path planning problem. The harmonic function is obtained by solving the Laplace’s equation. In this study, the harmonic functions act as potential values at each point in the robot environment. These potential values are then used to find path from the starting point to the specified target point. In order to obtain these harmonic functions, the most commonly used approaches are the finite difference methods of Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and Successive Over-relaxation (SOR). However, these standard iterative methods are too slow, especially when it involves large environments. Therefore, this study proposes faster methods that employ the combination of quarter sweep techniques with SOR iteration. The results of experiments show that these proposed methods have successfully reduced the time of computation of harmonic functions drastically. This has directly improved the overall performance of the path planning algorithm, particularly in terms of execution time.

Keywords: Robot path planning, Harmonic functions, iterative method, half sweep, quarter sweep, Laplace’s equation

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2017-12-01

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Saudi, A., & Sulaiman, J. (2017). Perancangan Laluan Robot menggunakan Fungsi Harmonik melalui Kaedah Lelaran Sapuan Suku: Robot Path Planning using Harmonic Functions via Quarter Sweep Iterative Method. Journal of Science and Mathematics Letters, 5, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.37134/jsml.vol5.1.2017