Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: ““Description of the Related Art“Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robot control and robotics. A motio n plan completelyspecifies a path a robot can follow from a starting state to a goal state, typically without colliding or witha reduced possibility of collid ing with any obstacles in an operational environment, which is typically athree -dimensional operational environment. Challenges to motion planning include the ability to quicklyperform motion planning even as characteristics of the three- dimensional operational environment change.For example, characteristics such as location or shape of one or more obstacles in the three-dimensionaloperational environment may change over time.