ViCoMoR IROS Workshop on Visual Control of Mobile Robots ( ViCoMoR ) Half Day

Autonomous Mobile Robots Controlled by Navigation Functions

This paper reviews the theory of navigation functions and the attendant use of natural control techniques with emphasis upon applications to mobile autonomous robots. Results to date will be discussed in the context of a larger program of research that seeks effective parameterizations of uncertainty in robot navigation problems. Constructive solutions to particular cases of mobile robot naviga...

IROS 2002 Workshop on Robots in Exhibitions

Based on the successful hardware and software architecture of Care-O-bot [7] [9], a new generation of mobile robots has been designed at Fraunhofer Institute of Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA). Three robots have been created to communicate with and to entertain visitors in a museum. Their tasks include welcoming visitors, leading a guided tour through the museum or playing with a...

Vision-based mobile robot formation control

Related work concerning the vision-based control of nonholonomic robots, control of robot formations and use of zoom for metrology and control in robotics has been analyzed. A summary concerning visual servoing of nonholonomic robots and control of zoom is given in document 1. Literature about the control of robot formations is surveyed from the robustness point of view in the Iros paper, with ...

Sensor space segmentation for visual attention control of a mobile robot based on information criterion

Visual attention is one of the most important issues for a vision guided mobile robot not simply because visual information bring a huge amount of data but also because the visual field is limited, therefore gaze control is necessary. This paper proposes a method of sensor space segmentation for visual attention control that enables mobile robots to realize efficient observation. The efficiency...

Nonlinear Control Of Wheeled Mobile Robots