Path Planning vs. Obstacle Avoidance No clear distinction, but usually: Global vs. local Path planning low-frequency, time-intensive search method for.
A General Framework for Sampling on the Medial Axis of the Free Space Jyh-Ming Lien, Shawna Thomas, Nancy Amato {neilien, sthomas,amato}@cs.tamu.edu.
Probabilistic Roadmaps for Path Planning in High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces (1996) L. Kavraki, P. Švestka, J.-C. Latombe, M. Overmars
