some high-level questions

[bconvens]

Hello,

Nice work to combine several robot motion planners and open source a package!

I have some questions:

• What is the main difference between this package and the planners available in the moveit framework?
• How would you advise people to use this?
• Is this part of a greater project you are working on?
• Did you or are you planning to use it on real-robots?
• What are the current limitations of this framework?

Thanks a lot for your advice and thoughts! Best, Bryan

[zhm-real]

Thanks for you question ^_^!

The purpose of this package is to provide a simple Python implementation and visual explanation of these common used planning algorithms. If you are learning or testing these algorithms on your own virtual platform, this package can at least be used as a kind of explanation or reference. It is not a mature library to be called and can not be used on real-robots directly.

Yes, you are right. This package is a summary of classic algorithms when I work on some greater robot planning projects. I think there should be many learners as me who will face problems in the process of reading and understanding those papers. So I spent much time on the visulization, in order to be easier to understand.

I believe this packge has a lot to be improved, I have received a lot and hope to receive more great suggestions to better it!

Thanks! Huiming