This repository is an implementation of the algorithm described in the paper "Global Path Planning for Autonomous Robot Navigation Using Hybrid Metaheuristic GA-PSO Algorithm" by Hsu-Chih Huang and Ching-Chih Tsai. The program was writen for the "Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems" course. This course is part of the "MSc in Computer Science" program in University of Piraeus.
- If not already installed, install the [PyGame Library] (http://www.pygame.org/news.html)
- Place all the source files in the same directory.
- If under Windows OS:
- Open
__main__.pywith IDLE and run it
- Open
- If under UNIX-like system:
- Open a terminal
- Move to the proper directory
- Run the program with
python __main__.py
- Allow the user to select the starting and goal position
- Allow the user to switch between other searching algorithms
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Copyright (c) 2014 Kiriakos Velissariou
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