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Center for Intelligent Team Robotics & Human-Robot Collaboration

Digital Twin & HRI

Speed Up Robot Motion Planning Computations

Principal Investigator: Tsung-Tai Yeh

Background

Rising environmental complexity delays these calculations, compromising robot safety and reliability during tasks. Given the growing prevalence of Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in embedded systems, this project explores methods to parallelize and optimize current motion planning algorithms, eliminating redundant computations for step determination.

Research Objectives

We will optimize motion planning algorithms for complex environments on parallel processors. Finally, the optimized algorithms will be deployed onto embedded vector processing units or NPUs, significantly reducing motion planning latency in complex environments through hardware-software co-design.

Methods

Collision-free motion planning, Deformable Object Manipulation

Innovation

Motion planning on CPU-NPU heterogeneous System

Expected Outcomes

Minimize the robotic motion planning latency on dynamic obstacles