An obstacle avoidance approach is introduced that has dynamic active regions. The dynamic regions are adapted to the current speed of the robot and there are different active regions used, one for speed reduction and one of turning away from obstacles. The overall strategy of this approach is that the robot can drive with high speed which will be reduced in front of an obstacle in order to do a...

In this paper, we propose a novel type of serial robot with minimal actuation. The robot is a serial rigid structure consisting of multiple links connected by passive joints and of movable actuators. The novelty of this robot is that the actuators travel over the links to a given joint and adjust the relative angle between the two adjacent links. The joints passively preserve their angles until...

Results. Using an attentional allocation index (AAI) to compare performance of healthy young and older adults and to measure the flexibility of allocation of attention, results showed a tendency in older adults toward a decreased ability to flexibly allocate their attention between the two tasks, with small AAI values. The decreased ability to allocate attention in older adults was found to be ...

This paper deals with nonholonomic motion planning including obstacle avoidance capabilities. We show that the methods developed in absence of obstacles can be extended to the problem of obstacle avoidance, provided that they verify a topological property. Such steering methods allow us to design exact and complete collision-free path planners for a large family of systems. We show that the ste...

This paper presents a practical solution to the guidance of a unicycle type robot, including path following, obstacle avoidance and the respect of wheeled actuation saturation constraint, without planning procedure. These results are based on an extension of previous results on path following control including actuation saturation constraints. New solution for obstacle avoidance, with guarantee...

P r ~ i o u s LUC of arr$cial pountiab has dononraolcd the need for an oinmcle moidwue p o r e d that closely mo&L he obstacle. ye1 docr not pnworr lord minim0 in the wontrpocc of rhr manipuhror. Recentty we proposed a new ellipticd porcrdolfwvrion which &fis hesc rcquirenunu for rectongrhu objects in spherically synuncrric amocdvc wells. In rhir paper we present a ntw obstacle avoidwue porenri...

Nowadays, Wheeled Mobile Robots (WMRs) are built and the control system that used to control them are made by Electronic Engineers. Depend on their desire design of WMR, Technicians made used of Microcontrollers as controlling machines and DC Motors for motion control. Autonomous robotic vehicle guidance for indoor navigation has been developed for Mobile Industrial Robot model. The resulting d...

This paper proposes a new obstacle and collision avoidance control laws for a three-dimensional swarm of boids. The swarm exhibit collective emergent behaviors whilst avoiding the obstacles in the workspace. While flocking, animals group up in order to do various tasks and even a greater chance of evading predators. A generalized algorithms for attraction to the centroid, inter-individual swarm...

The demand for reliable obstacle avoidance capabilities to ensure safe operation of manned and unmanned aircraft platforms in proximity of the terrain has led to the development of a number of obstacle detection and warning systems. Among the different technologies proposed for the application, the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology employing eye-safe laser sources, advanced electro...

3 Acknowledgement 4 Table of