Robot path planning using VLSI resistive grids
Marshall GF., Tarassenko L.
For rapidly-changing environments with dynamic obstacles, a hardware implementation of the restrictive grid is required to exploit the advantages of using parallel analogue computation so that the path may still be computed in real time. We have implemented a silicon VLSI resistive grid on a 2mm×2mm proof-of-concept test chip using ORBIT 2μm process, the results from which are presented in this paper.