A Survey of Path Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles

. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicle technology has become a hot research spot in this era, which can effectively improve driving safety and greatly secure driver’s operations. As one of the key technologies for automated vehicles, planning a safe and highly effective path is the key premise and can guarantee for road safety. Therefore, it has a significant impact on academic research and commercial applications. In this paper, we take autonomous vehicles as our research theme, collect, summarize, compare and evaluate those state-of-the-art algorithms of path planning. Our ultimate goal is to create a novel path planning algorithm based on the unique characteristic of autonomous vehicles, explore and exploit its further value.