Development of Autonomous Radiation Mapping Robot

Autonomous Robot Control for Underwater Tunnel Mapping

Autonomous Robot Mapping by Landmark Association

This paper shows how an indoor mobile robot equipped with a laser sensor and an odometer computes its global map by associating landmarks found in the environment. The approach developed is based on the observation that humans and animals detects where they are in the surrounding by comparing their spatial relation to some known or recognized objects in the environments, i.e. landmarks. In this...

Autonomous Robot Mapping With Behavior-based Navigation

An aim of intelligent robotics research is to develop mobile robots capable of navigating autonomously in unstructured and/or unexplored environments. The practicality of such a robot is a function of its ability to utilize a map to locate itself and its goals as it navigates throughout. In some situations a map may be available a priori [Miller89, Arkin90, Gat90, Payton90], in which case goal ...

Safety aspects of autonomous robot software development

This paper is concerned with safety aspects of autonomous robot software development. Autonomous robots may operate unattended and through an unsafe operation may cause significant human, economic, or mission losses. Similar problems were encountered early on in manufacturing automation; but autonomous robots may change their behavior and operate in much less controlled environments. We concent...

Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development

The paper presents a method to guide the self-organised development of behaviours of autonomous robots. In earlier publications we demonstrated how to use the homeokinesis principle and dynamical systems theory to obtain self-organised playful but goal-free behaviour. Now we extend this framework by reinforcement signals. We validate the mechanisms with two experiment with a spherical robot. Th...