This paper presents a sensor-based motion planning algorithm for 3-DOF car-like robots with a nonholonomic constraint. Similar to the classic Bug family algorithms, the proposed algorithm enables the car-like robot to navigate in a completely unknown environment using only the range sensor information. The car-like robot uses the local range sensor view to determine the local path so that it mo...

Over the last 30 years, the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has emerged as one of the world's leading research centers in the fields of computer science and information technology. It would be impossible to cover the breadth of their research in a short article like this, so we focus on a very small laboratory that is making big news in the robotics worl...