Development of Autonomous Indoor Floor Cleaning Robot

CATE: An Autonomous Indoor Tour Guide Robot

This paper describes a radio frequency identification (RFID) and sonar-guided tour guide robot, CATE (Central’s Automated Tour Experience). The portable terminal unit is an embedded system equipped with an RFID reader for localization, and sonar and IR sensors for obstacle detection and avoidance. CATE can guide the visitor through a predefined tour of the building, or create a new route onthe-...

A Floor Boundary Sensor for Autonomous Robot Navigation

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Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robot Using Global Ultrasonic System

Exploration of an indoor-environment by an autonomous mobile robot

This paper describes the exploration component of MOBOT-IV, an autonomous mobile robot for indoorapplications. MOBOT-IV has no preloaded world-model, but builds up an internal map, while exploring the environment using its optical range finder. A method is presented for the autonomous and systematic construction of a 2D-map of the vehicles environment. Besides a line based geometric representat...

Autonomous Pool Cleaning: Self Localization and Autonomous Navigation for Cleaning

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...