Path planning is an important aspect of the robotics research and it is also one ofthe most important task of robot navigation. Path planning is defined as: in theenvironment with obstacles, according to a certain criteria, the robot can find a pathfrom the starting position to the target position without collision. This topic takesmobile robot as the research object and analysis some algorithms of the mobile robotpath planning. This paper researches the artificial potential field method andrapidly-explorin...