In the last few years the market of robotics has significantly changed and the growing sector of service robotics requires new considerations in civil engineering. This paper investigates different room and furniture arrangements in the view of mobile robot navigation requirements. The described method provides robot motion and path planning cost functions for different furniture arrangements a...

In this paper, a hybrid approach for efficiently planning smooth local paths for mobile robot in an unknown environment is presented. The single robot is treated as a multi-agent system, and the corresponding architecture with cooperative control is constructed. And then a new method of information fusion namely DSmT (Dezert-Smarandache Theory) which is an extension of the DST (Dempster-Shafer ...

This paper addresses the problem of path following for mobile robots with particular emphasis on integrating the global path planning, path following and a collision avoidance scheme in a unified framework. Whereas the traditional path following algorithms aim at minimizing an error function with respect to a given path and kinematic and/or dynamic model of the robot, the problem of collision a...

– one of the important applications of robots is in material handling and transport of various shaped objects. in cases where an object cannot be directly grasped by the robot gripper, and must be carried by a hook, it may be subject to undesirable swings during transport. this paper presents an analytical method for minimizing the oscillation of a suspended object during transport. this method...

It is difficult to detect all dynamic obstacles around a robot due to the limitation of field of view. Visibility information is necessary in order to avoid collisions. In previous research, we proposed a path planning and speed control scheme that could be applied to a robot to avoid occluded dynamic obstacles. In this paper experimental verifications of the proposed scheme for various environ...

The fuzzy logic controller for mobile robots that tuned by genetic algorithm is designed for path planning in unknown environments. The path planning is very important for moving a robot to a specific position even there is a changing in the environment. The robot should recognize the environment around himself by using navigation plan which make the robot to accomplish the mission. This design...

Industrial robots should be implemented with proper path planning to generate a trajectory which ensures obstacle avoidance and collision free movement. Selection of a path planning techniques need to be done only after detailed studies. This paper deals with the study and implementation of a path planning technique using potential fi eld method for a 2R robot in a given workspace with obstacle...

This paper describes our work in solving path planning problem for mobile robot by using harmonic functions to generate path in the configuration space. Harmonic functions are known to have an advantage as a global potential function in the potential field based approach for robot path planning. However, an immense amount of computations are required as the size of the environment get bigger. T...

In this paper, a model of self-organizing spiking neural networks is introduced and applied to mobile robot environment representation and path planning problem. A network of spike-response-model neurons with a recurrent architecture is used to create robot’s internal representation from surrounding environment. The overall activity of network simulates a self-organizing system with unsupervise...

Just a test. We present an algorithm for path planning for a flexible robot in complex environments. Our algorithm computes a collision free path by taking into account geometric and physical constraints, including obstacle avoidance, nonpenetration constraint, volume preservation, surface tension, and energy minimization. We describe a new algorithm for collision detection between a deformable...