CIIPS Glory is using a local intelligence approach to solve the task of robot soccer. In this respect our system is much closer to the F-2000 league (mid-size) than other approaches in the F180 (small-size) league. We are using EyeBot controllers, the RoBIOS operating system and the EyeCam digital onboard camera systems (CMOS). Our robot family also comprises 6-legged and biped walking machines...

An Ad-hoc network is a dynamic network farmed on demand by a group of nodes without any pre-existing network infrastructure. Self configurability and easy deployment feature of the Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) resulted in numerous applications in modern era. An efficient and effective medium access control (MAC) protocol is essential in ad-hoc network for proper sharing of channel. The omnidir...

While navigating, most autonomous mobile robots view things only in front of them and, as a result, they may collide with objects moving from the side or behind. To overcome this problem, an Active Omni-directional Range Sensor System has been presented, that is capable of obtaining the omni-directional range data on navigation environment through the use of a laser conic plane and a conic mirr...

Directional antennas have been proposed to improve the performance and capacity of Wireless MAC protocols for use in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Such antennas focus their beams in the direction of their receiver, allowing more of the signal power to be used in the direction of the transmission and simultaneously reducing the interference in other directions. However, several challenges and...

The omni-directional mobile robot with multi DOF, because the operation posture and operation accuracy of the manipulator can be better controlled in a narrow or crowded workplace compared with the general manipulator, is getting more interested in practical applications. The present problem is to improve its flexibility for operating multiple different targets. Target recognition with image pr...

This paper presents a hybrid sensing system for mobile robot localization in large-scale indoor environments. The system operates in two sensing modes, either omni-directional vision or laser scanning, according to the environmental characteristics. For a structured corridor environment, the vision information is adopted to track the robot pose with a predefined hybrid metric-topological map. F...