Study of two Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Path Planning of Mobile Robots

Authors:	dos Santos Coelho Leandro, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Sierakowski Cezar A., Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil
Topic:	4.3 Robotics
Session:	Robot Control I
Keywords:	mobile robots, path planning, swarm intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, optimization.

Abstract

Swarm intelligence was originally inspired in social behaviour in nature, also considering the evolving aspects, several variations in swarm intelligence’s techniques made it applicable to optimization problems. In this paper two case studies of static environment, composed with obstacles are presented and evaluated, a comparative study is evaluated between two techniques of swarm intelligence and a genetic algorithm for the presented problems.