In this paper, we present an approach to obstacle avoidance for a group of unmanned vehicles moving in formation. The goal of the group is to move through a partially unknown environment with obstacles and reach a destination while maintaining the formation. We address this problem for a class of dynamic unicycle robots. Using Inputto-State Stability we combine a general class of formationkeepi...

In this paper, we provide an extension to our previous approach [1] to perform obstacle avoidance in the presence of multiple fast moving and rotating obstacles. Our approach leverage on the notion of DS to generate robot motions that are inherently robust to perturbations and can instantly adapt to changes in the target and obstacles’ positions in a dynamically moving environments. We validate...

Obstacle Avoidance for a Mobile Robot A notorious problem in mobile obstacle avoidance is the detection and avoidance of obstacles. This thesis evaluates several well-known methods for controlling the motion of a mobile robot in an unknown dynamic environment. One of these methods, the Global Dynamic Window Approach, is selected and, using a laser range finder as the only range sensor, the meth...

We present the local path planning and obstacle avoidance method used on the autonomous tour-guide robot RoboX. It has proven its value during a 5 month operation of ten such robots in a real-world application, a very crowded exhibition. Three known approaches (DWA, elastic band, NF1) have been integrated into a system that performs smooth motion efficiently, in the sense of computational effor...

this article is a continuation of the previous article called “Obstacle Avoidance in Dynamic Environment: a Hierarchical Solution”, which presented the concept for obstacle avoidance in dynamic environment suitable for mobile robot. The task of obstacle avoidance is divided in three principal groups: local, global and for emergencies. The global avoidance is here approached, in which the concep...

Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) path planning is a crucial technology for achieving USV autonomous navigation. Under global planning, dynamic local obstacle avoidance has become the primary focus safe In this study, method based on enhanced velocity proposed in order to achieve replanning. Through further analysis of obstacles, geometric model set conventional was redefined. A special triangular...

Autonomous exploration and search have important applications in robotics. One interesting application is cooperative control of mobile robotic/sensor networks to achieve uniform coverage of a domain. Ergodic coverage is one solution for this problem in which control laws for the agents are derived so that the agents uniformly cover a target area while maintaining coordination with each other. ...

52 Abstract— This paper deals with a low cost solution to obstacle avoidance for a mobile robot. This paper also presents a dynamic steering algorithm which ensures that the robot doesn't have to stop in front of an obstacle which allows robot to navigate smoothly in an unknown environment, avoiding collisions. The obstacle avoidance strategy has been described. Obstacle avoidance strategy and ...

In this paper we focus on the application of reinforcement learning to obstacle avoidance in dynamic Environments in wireless sensor networks. A distributed algorithm based on reinforcement learning is developed for sensor networks to guide mobile robot through the dynamic obstacles. The sensor network models the danger of the area under coverage as obstacles, and has the property of adoption o...

Abstract Obstacle avoidance for Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) is still a challenging problem. In our previous work, we proposed framework obstacle based on superquadric potential functions to represent volumes. this extend work include the velocity of system in definition potential. Our formulations guarantee smoother behavior with respect state-of-the-art point-like methods. Moreover, new...