...For later ROS versions, see https://github.com/WPI-ARC/lightning_ros
This approach uses a path library to store previous experience while allowing generality by also planning from scratch. Please see the paper below for more details:
A Robot Path Planning Framework that Learns from Experience
Dmitry Berenson, Pieter Abbeel, and Ken Goldberg
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012.
This package uses OMPL planners (http://ompl.kavrakilab.org/) to implement each component in lightning and can be called the same way as any other OMPL planner.
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