In recent years, interest has been developed for the problem of mobile robot navigation system because of its applications in various disciplines. The software development of mobile robot navigation is a complex phenomena and it is passed through different stages of design. It can be modeled either for autonomous, usually, in an unknown environment or for controlled robots in a known environmen...

A large number of tasks, from manufacturing to planetary exploration, have been successfully accomplished using single robot systems. Many of these tasks could be completed faster, more reliably, and on a larger scale using a cooperating team of autonomous mobile robots. However, robots must be able to coordinate their actions before cooperation is possible. This work aims to enable robots with...

Mobile robot navigation in total or partially unknown environments is still an open problem. The path planning algorithms lack completeness and/or performance. Thus, there is the need for complete (i.e., the algorithm determines in finite time either a solution or correctly reports that there is none) and performance (i.e., with low computational complexity) oriented algorithms which need to pe...

In this paper we propose a sensor-based navigation method for navigation of wheeled mobile robot, based on the Kohonen self-organising map (SOM). We discuss a sensor-based approach to path design and control of wheeled mobile robot in an unknown 2-D environment with static obstacles. A strategy of reactive navigation is developed including two main behaviours: a reaching the middle of a collisi...

New low-cost commercially available bottom-lock doppler sonars can augment or replace the acoustic timeof-flight navigation systems commonly employed for threedimensional underwater robot vehicle navigation. This paper first reviews conventional techniques for underwater vehicle navigation, and describes a doppler-based navigation system recently developed by the authors. Second, we identify pr...

This paper presents an obstacle avoidance module dedicated to non-holonomic wheeled mobile robots. Chained system theory and deformable virtual zone principle are coupled to design an original framework based on path following formalism. The proposed strategy allows to correct the control output provided by a navigation module to preserve the robot security while assuring the navigation task. F...

A reactive navigation system for an autonomous mobile robot in unstructured dynamic environments is presented. The motion of moving obstacles is estimated for robot motion planning and obstacle avoidance. A multisensor-based obstacle predictor is utilized to obtain obstacle-motion information. Sensory data from a CCD camera and multiple ultrasonic range finders are combined to predict obstacle ...

This paper presents a new strategy for autonomous navigation of eld mobile robots on hazardous natural terrain using a fuzzy logic approach and a novel measure of terrain traversability. The navigation strategy is comprised of three simple, independent behaviors: seek-goal, traverse-terrain, and avoid-obstacle. The recommendations from these three behaviors are combined through appropriate weig...

A hierarchical robot navigation system has been developed and implemented on a range of real and simulated mobile robots for two independent research applications. One application is a study on emotion-modulated navigation. The other is an investigation of heterogeneous multi-robot navigation. The navigation framework shared by the various implementations is described. A multi-layered architect...

the aim of this paper is to present a strategy describing a hybrid approach for the navigation of a mobile robot in a partially known environment. The main idea is to combine between fuzzy logic approach suitable for the navigation in an unknown environment and spiking neural networks approach for solving the problem of navigation in a known environment. In the literature, many approaches exist...