An omnidirectional mobile robot is able, kinematically, to move in any direction regardless of current pose. To date, nearly all designs and analyses of omnidirectional mobile robots have considered the case of motion on flat, smooth terrain. In this paper, an investigation of the design and analysis of an omnidirectional mobile robot for use in rough terrain is presented. Kinematic and geometr...

Recognizing a previously visited place, also known as place recognition (or loop closure detection) is the key towards fully autonomous mobile robots and self-driving vehicle navigation. Augmented with various Simultaneous Localization and Mapping techniques (SLAM), loop closure detection allows for incremental pose correction and can bolster efficient and accurate map creation. However, repeat...

We address the problem of planning the motion of a team of mobile robots subject to constraints imposed by sensors and the communication network. Our goal is to develop a decentralized motion control system that leads each robot to their individual goals while keeping connectivity with the neighbors. We present experimental results with a group of car-like robots equipped with omnidirectional v...

A dynamic model is presented for omnidirectional wheeled mobile robots, including wheel/motion surface slip. We derive the dynamics model, experimentally measure friction coefficients, and measure the force to cause slip (to validate our friction model). Dynamic simulation examples are presented to demonstrate omnidirectional motion with slip. After developing an improved friction model, compar...

This paper presents experimental analysis of wheeled mobile robots. Mathematical modelling of the mobile robot is presented. The mobile robots consist of an omni-directional and three differential drive mobile robots are tested and moved in given trajectories and the systematic errors of the robots are determined. A new method for omni-direction mobile robot was introduced in which the robot wa...

A new approach is presented which integrates an interactive evolutionary interface for sound production, real world devices, such as mobile robots, and an omnidirectional vision system. Starting with an evolutionary composition system named VOX POPULI and later JaVOX, a hybrid environment named AURAL has evolved. It uses curves drawn in an GUI and trajectories produced by mobile robots to modif...

When mobile robots execute autonomous tasks, map information is important in path planning and selflocalization. In unknown environments, mobile robots must generate their own environmental maps. This paper proposes three-dimensional (3D) environment modeling by a mobile robot. The model is generated from results of 3D measurement and texture information. To measure environmental objects effici...

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...