In this paper, different techniques/methodologies/strategies that are used in the field of mobile robot navigation have been reviewed forunknown environment is an important task for the new generation of several mobile robots. We consider the wheeled mobile robotsfor Path Planning, an autonomous robot and an obstacle and collision avoidance to be used in sensor based robots. We propose that dri...

To achieve autonomous indoor mobile robot navigation, the robot needs to identify the direction, obstacle position and other information. This paper describes a solution for indoor mobile robot navigation and obstacle distance detection which based on monocular vision. We use Hough transform to find the straight lines in the corridor environment which were used to find the vanishing point as th...

-Whenever a mobile robot has to deal with an environment that is totally or partially unknown or dynamically changing, local navigation strategies are very important for the robot to successfully achieve its goals. Unfortunately, local navigation algorithms that have been proposed in the literature offer poor performance (or even fail) whenever the geometry of the free space in which the robot ...

This paper deals with planning of visual navigation strategies for a mobile robot under uncertainty of both visual data and dead reckoning data. When a robot passes through a narrow space, it has to move slowly while carefully observing surrounding objects and estimating the distances to the objects precisely. On the other hand, the robot can move fast in a widely open space. A novel method is ...

This paper deals with planning of visual navigation strategies for a mobile robot under uncertainty of both visual data and dead reckoning data. When a robot passes through a narrow space, it has to move slowly while carefully observing surrounding objects and estimating the distances to the objects precisely. On the other hand, the robot can move fast in a widely open space. A novel method is ...

In this paper the feasibility of equipping a mobile robot with the ability to learn a path, in real time, using principles based on insect-based navigation skills and a biologically plausible neural network model inspired by the "Conjunction of Local Features Network" (CLF network) through both real-world and controlled environment experiments is presented. Results shown for experiments on a pr...

A method of accurately controlling the position of a mobile robot using an external Large Volume Metrology (LVM) instrument is presented in this paper. Utilizing a LVM instrument such as a laser tracker or indoor GPS (iGPS) in mobile robot navigation, many of the most difficult problems in mobile robot navigation can be simplified or avoided. Using the real-time position information from the la...

Intelligent mobile robots need the ability to integrate robust navigation facilities with higher level reasoning. This paper is an attempt at combining results and techniques from the areas of robot navigation and of intelligent agency. We propose to integrate an existing navigation system based on fuzzy logic with a deliberator based on the so-called BDI model. We discuss some of the subtletie...

Effective collaboration between a robot and a person requires natural communication. When a robot travels with a human companion, the robot should be able to explain its navigation behavior in natural language. This paper explains how a cognitively-based, autonomous robot navigation system produces informative, intuitive explanations for its decisions. Language generation here is based upon the...

This paper describes fuzzy logic approach to mobile robot behavior design. An autonomous mobile robot must be able to move safely in a crowded unknown environment for reaching a desired goal. A successful way of structuring the navigation task in order to deal with the problem is within behavior based navigation approaches. In this paper, individual behavior design will be addressed using fuzzy...