Evaluation of mobile robots is a multidimensional problem. There are many performance indices that can be used to compare and evaluate mobile robots. Examples are speed, stability etc. A natural framework for the evaluation of mobile robots is multicriteria evaluation the science of evaluation functions whose output is nonscalar. In this paper we present a methodology for mission oriented mobil...

The problem associated with trajectory generation for a car-like robot (CLR) moving from an initial configuration to any final configuration is studied in this paper. The aim of our research is to achieve energy-optimal solution to the problem of trajectory generation. Based on bang-bang control theory, the necessary condition for energy-optimal trajectory generation is studied. Based on steeri...

This special issue focuses on the following topic areas: i Biomimetics and locomotion, ii mobile vehicles, iii human-robot systems and haptic interfaces, and iv novel systems modeling and analysis. We believe that this special issue provides a compilation of the most recent developments in the field of robotics and will be an important source of information for current and future researchers. B...

In this work, a Modified Vector Field Histogram (MVFH) has been developed to improve path planning and obstacle avoidance for a wheeled driven mobile robot. It permits the detection of unknown obstacle to avoid collisions by simultaneously a steering the mobile robot toward the target; a regular grid map representation for a work space environment is caurried out. A Neural Network (NN) model is...

This paper presents a 3-D local map building approach for real-time obstacle avoidance using visually-recognized laser patterns. Precise estimate of the local map provides essential information for navigation and control of a mobile robot in unknown environments. Existing navigation and control approaches typically require expensive sensing devices, such as sonar or laser range finder. In this ...

In this paper we propose a methodology for robust plane recovering from monocular images. The method is mainly based on the tracking interest points taken from a mobile robot’s camera. An efficient methodology for interest point detection, tracking and recovering has been implemented. The method proposed works in real time, and it is robust enough to deal with different undesired camera motions...