Most of the mobile robot path planning algorithms presented to date, generate intermediate goal coordinates for a mobile robot to pursue, based upon the local environment and the position of the global target. In response to this, we present a general controller for any vehicle which is driven by changing target vectors and show that the restricted speed (or torque) capabilities of the vehicle ...

This paper proposes a cooperative framework among a mobile robot and an infrastructure for the sake of surveillance and identification. The infrastructure is comprised of a network of cameras, inertial sensors, a facial identification system and a GPU-enabled server. The cooperation among the mobile robot and infrastructure is service-based. The scene is observed by camera sensors. There is a m...

We have been developed an intelligent mobile robot with an artificial olfactory function to re cognize odours and to track odour source location. This mobile robot also has been installed an engine for speech recognition and synthesis, and is controlled by wireless communication. An artificial olfactory system based on array of 7 gas sensors has been installed in the mobile robot for odour reco...

When an autonomous mobile robot acts in constructed environments, a map which has the information about obstacles is necessary for the mobile robot. Even if the map is given, the mobile robot cannot start its action without the information of its present location on the map. Therefore, techniques of map generation and self-localization are important for mobile robots. In this paper, we propose ...

Developed at UWE Bristol’s Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Laboratory for conducting experiments in collective mobile robotics, the LinuxBot is a proven and reliable wireless-networked wheeled mobile robot capable of supporting a wide range of sensors and actuators. The robot has a Linux-based software and communications architecture, which embeds TCP/IP networking tools including FTP, Tel...