Cost Oriented Autonomous Mobile Service Robot

ODYSSEUS: An Autonomous Mobile Robot

Odysseus is a small wheeled robot equipped with an arm, sonar sensors and a camera system. It is connected by radio links to a pool of computers that control the robot. A main emphasise in the software implementation of Odysseus' control is the ability to act and react in real-time. Odysseus combines low-level reactive mechanisms with global planning and exception handling, using a wide variety...

An Autonomous Navigational Mobile Robot

Autonomous mobile robot assisted herding

In this paper, we describe work that begins to address some of the issues related to developing an autonomous mobile robotic capability to assist humans with herding animals. A novel aspect of this work is the development of a capability to convey instructions to the robot via movements of a “toy human.” In this work, no other explicit form of communication from the human to the robot is requir...

The MARIE Autonomous Mobile Robot

In this paper an experimental platform developed for the ESPRIT project MARIE is described. The vehicle has an automobile-like kinematics and is fitted with a control computer and ultra-sonic sensors. The control software has a layered, modular structure and standardized interfaces, suitable for an experimental platform. The principal software modules and the experiments performed to test the i...

Autonomous Wheeled Mobile Robot Control

The autonomous wheeled mobile robots are very interesting subject both in scientific research and practical applications. The article deals with the fuzzy control of autonomous wheeled mobile robotic platform motion in an unstructured environment with obstacles. The simulation results show the effectiveness and the validity of the obstacle avoidance behaviour in unstructured environments and th...