Intelligent Techniques for Cognitive Mobile Robots

Mobile and/or autonomous robots represent a widely approached research subject. The most common problems associated to all the types of mobile robots refers to the spatial orientation system and to the mathematical models. Additionally, many difficulties are generated taking into consideration practical aspects of implementation, but the technology evolution made possible to develop smaller sized robots and to provide them with greater autonomy.Most of the existent mobile robots are wheeled ones, easy to build, but not always easy to control. They are not at all purpose convenient, but could avoid obstacles, without being able to climb them. For an evolution in more complex configuration spaces, worm-like robots were also developed. Control strategies for such robots should have more or less embedded intelligence.