Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...

Competing at the RoboCup 2000 Sony legged robot league, the UNSW team won both the challenge competition and all their soccer matches, emerging the outright winners for this league against eleven other international teams. The main advantage that the UNSW team had was speed. A major contributor to the speed was a novel omnidirectional locomotion method developed for the quadruped Sony ERS-110 r...

We propose an algorithm to estimate the ego-motion of an omnidirectional robot based on a sequence of position estimates. Thereto, we derive a motion model for omnidirectional robots and an estimation procedure to fit the model to observed positions. Additionally, we show how we can benefit from the velocity estimates deriving an algorithm that recognizes situations in which a robot is blocked ...

A The proposed system developed an omnidirectional algorithm to control autonomous mobile robots with three wheels. implementation consists of Planet DC motors rated power 80 W for wheels, encoders speed feedback, one encoder distance and digital compass sensor angle feedback. main STM32F407 microcontroller is designed directional wheels based the signal received from then controls subsystems a...

The omnidirectional image sensor has many advantages of the branches of map-building, navigation, and localization for mobile robot and the concern with the sensor has been growing. When the omnidirectional image sensor is used to various application, the feature matching between two images is the essential problem that always occurs at the first step of an image processing. Although several st...

With the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. However the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. Robot n...

Understanding the environment is an essential ability for robots to be autonomous. In this sense, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can provide holistic descriptors of a scene. These have proved robust in dynamic environments. The aim paper perform hierarchical localization mobile robot indoor by means CNN. Omnidirectional images are used as input Experiments include classification study whi...

In the near future, personal service robots are expected to come into human daily life as supporters in education, leisure, house care, health care, and so on. Most of them are built on an omnidirectional mobile robot so as to navigate in an environment restricted in space and cluttered with obstacles. Caster wheels have been chosen for the development of an omnidirectional mobile robot, as rep...

this paper aims to discuss the requirements of safe and smooth trajectory planning of transporter mobile robots to perform non-prehensile object manipulation task. in non-prehensile approach, the robot and the object must keep their grasp-less contact during manipulation task. to this end, dynamic grasp concept is employed for a box manipulation task and corresponding conditions are obtained an...

If robots are to invade our homes and offices, they will have to interact more naturally with humans. Natural interaction will certainly include the ability of robots to plan their motion, accounting for the social norms enforced. In this paper we propose a novel solution for Human-Aware Navigation resorting to external omnidirectional static cameras, used to implement a vision-based person tra...