**Preface XI**


Preface

The book *Advanced Path Planning for Mobile Entities* provides a platform for practicing re‐ searchers, academics, PhD students and other scientists to design, analyze, evaluate, process and implement diversiform issues of path planning, including algorithms for multipath and mobile planning and path planning for mobile robots. The nine chapters of the book demon‐ strate capabilities of advanced path planning for mobile entities to solve scientific and engi‐

The first five chapters related to advanced algorithms for multipath planning provide de‐ tails of methods for the consensus-based multipath planning with the collision avoidance applied in various environments and developed algorithms for search-based motion plan‐

The second four chapters associated with extended path planning for mobile robots demon‐ strate possibilities of new approaches in path planning using neural network memory or

I hope that beginners and professionals in the field would benefit by going through the de‐

**Rastislav Róka**

Institute of MICT

Slovak University of Technology

FEI STU Bratislava, Slovakia

parametric curves, motion planning, and navigation focused on mobile robots.

neering problems with varied degree of complexity.

ning and path planning on quadric surfaces.

tails given in the chapters of this book.
