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Add a bidirectional RRT and path smoothing for joint-space planning - #899

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A joint-space search that only asks is_valid(q), so it can be driven by whatever collision model the caller already has. Bidirectional RRT-connect with goal and straight-line sampling biases, plus shortcut and resample to tidy the result.

No dependencies beyond numpy, and nothing else in the tree imports it yet — this is the first layer of a collision-aware planner that will build on it.

The returned path is checked at the given resolution and is trustworthy only to that spacing; the docstring now says so, since a violation narrower than one check can pass between two check points.

A collision-aware planner needs a search that only asks "is this configuration
valid", so it can be driven by whatever collision model the caller has. This is
that search: bidirectional RRT-connect with goal and straight-line sampling
biases, plus shortcutting and resampling to tidy what it finds.

The path is checked at the given resolution and is only trustworthy to that
spacing, which the docstring now states, since a violation narrower than one
check can pass between two check points.
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