An Autonomous Omnidirectional Robot

Path Following and Velocity Optimizing for an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot

In this paper, the path following controller of an omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR) has been extended in such a way that the forward velocity has been optimized and the actuator velocity constraints have been taken into account. Both have been attained through the proposed model predictive control (MPC) framework. The forward velocity has been included into the objective function, while the a...

Omnidirectional Vision for an Autonomous Helicopter

We present the design and implementation of an omnidirectional vision system used for sideways-looking sensing on an autonomous helicopter. To demonstrate the capabilities of the system, a visual servoing task was designed which required the helicopter to locate and move towards the centroid of a number of visual targets. Results are presented showing that the task was successfully completed by...

Reinforcement learning on an omnidirectional mobile robot

With this paper we describe a well suited, scalable problem for reinforcement learning approaches in the field of mobile robots. We show a suitable representation of the problem for a reinforcement approach and present our results with a model based standard algorithm. Two different approximators for the value function are used, a grid based approximator and a neural network based approximator.

Motion control of an omnidirectional mobile robot

This paper focuses on the motion control problem of an omnidirectional mobile robot. A new control method based on the inverse input-output linearized kinematic model is proposed. As the actuator saturation and actuator dynamics have important impacts on the robot performance, this control law takes into account these two aspects and guarantees the stability of the closed-loop control system. R...

Motion control of an omnidirectional mobile robot