Mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. In this paper, a new approach is proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. The proposed approach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the track using a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. For training, a human operator navigates the mobile robot in ...

The designing of advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles needs measurement of dynamical variations of vehicle, such as acceleration, velocity and yaw rate. Designed adaptive controllers to control lateral and longitudinal vehicle dynamics are based on the measured variables. Inertial MEMS-based sensors have some benefits including low price and low consumption that make them ...

 Successful navigation for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) depends on the ability of the navigation algorithm to fuse data from disparate sensor systems into a single direction command in real time, taking into account the various and sometimes contradictory goals of the UAV. In this paper, a fuzzybased method of sensor data analysis, fusion, and navigation is investigated. The results of ...

The age of intelligent vehicles is here, and with the rise in autonomous navigation we face a new challenge in finding ways to increase the safety and reliability of navigation for autonomous vehicles in dynamically changing environments. To date, most methodologies in autonomous navigation mainly rely on the data feed from local sensors. However, erroneous measurements in sensor data might red...

Cleaning is a major problem associated with pools. Since the manual cleaning is tedious and boring there is an interest in automating the task. This paper presents methods for autonomous localization and navigation for a pool cleaner to enable full coverage of pools. Path following cannot be ensured through use of internal position estimation methods alone; therefore sensing is needed. Sensor b...

Nowadays many parts of shipbuilding process are automated, but the painting process is not, because of the difficulty of automated on-line painting quality measurement, harsh painting environment and the difficulty of robot navigation. However, the painting automation is necessary, because it can provide consistent performance of painting film thickness. Furthermore, autonomous mobile robots ar...

Autonomous navigation systems are important to Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) simulations for generating realistic tactical behaviours for the non-player characters (or bots). In this paper, we describe our work on Quartz, an autonomous navigation system for MOUT simulations. Novel features of Quartz include qualitative spatial representation and hierarchical spatial reasoning ...

The reaction of autonomous mobile robot to the dynamic, uncertain, and changeable environment is one of most difficult issue in control of the intelligent autonomous robot movement. Fuzzy control appears as a very useful tool for handling the intelligent reactive navigation. Present work deals with building of fuzzy behavior based reactive navigation of goal achieving, obstacle avoidance, and p...

1. Summary Sensor systems supporting autonomous navigation of mobile robots have been developed for different commercial application areas. These approaches have been transferred to electrical wheelchairs to assist disabled people in their mobility, by warning of obstacles in the way and by assisting in the navigation to return back home. The technical approach is based on a lowcost sensor data...