Generally speaking, the mobile robot is capable of sensing its surrounding environment, interpreting the sensed information to obtain the knowledge of its location and the environment, planning a real-time trajectory to reach the object. In this process, the issue of obstacle avoidance is a fundamental topic to be challenged. Thus, an adaptive path-planning control scheme is designed without de...

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...

Locomotion generates a visual movement pattern characterized as optic flow. To explore how the locomotor adjustments are affected by this pattern, an experimental paradigm was developed to eliminate optic flow during obstacle avoidance. The aim was to investigate the contribution of optic flow in obstacle avoidance by using a stroboscopic lamp. Ten young adults walked on an 8m pathway and stepp...

Navigation and obstacle avoidance are very important issues for the successful use of an autonomous mobile robot. To allow the robot to move between its current and final configurations without any collision within the surrounding environment, motion planning needs much treatment. Thus to generate collision free path it should have proper motion planning as well as obstacle avoidance scheme. Th...

OBJECTIVE Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of falling. In healthy elderly persons with a history of falling, a reduced ability to avoid obstacles while walking has been shown to relate to increased fall risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether this potential risk factor for falls would also be present in persons with RA. METHODS Twelve RA patients and ...