The invention relates to a self-adaptive step length RRT (Rapidly-expansion
Random Tree, RRT) path
planning method based on
collision detection, and belongs to the field of
robot path planning. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, initializing a
system, namely initializing map information, determining a
robot obstacle space and a non-obstacle space, determining position coordinates of a path
initial point and a target point, a cardinal number of each connection step length, a distance target point threshold value and the like; then, path planning is carried out by using an improved RRT
algorithm, including sampling in a non-obstacle space, optimization of random sampling points in combination with a target bias strategy and an APF
algorithm, and expansion in a
random tree expansion direction according to a dynamic step length strategy; then, judging whether the new node is smaller than a threshold value, if so, finding a path, otherwise,
jumping to the sampling step; and finally, after the path is found, the
path length is shortened by using a path
pruning strategy, the final path is smoothed, and the path is output. Compared with a traditional RRT
algorithm, the improved RRT algorithm has the advantages that the path searching speed is increased, redundant nodes are eliminated, and the path quality is improved.