Motion Planning and Google Sketchup

Google Sketchup is becoming increasingly useful to motion planners, for creating environments, robots and motion planning queries. Now, Google Sketchup comes with a plugin that allows you to run, OOPSMP from Sketchup. OOPSMP helps you to solve motion planning problems.

To know about OOPSMP, Go here

For those who are new to Sketchup, there are certain start-up tutorials

>>> Google Sketchup tutorial videos

There are three tutorials on using the OOPSMP plugin from Sketchup

> 1. Defining your motion planning problem

> 2. Solving your motion planning problem

> 3. Animating your solution