With a few exceptions, today’s mobile robots, however complex, are not truly autonomous. At some time, they all require humans to supply them with energy and/or information; most also require other forms of assistance. In complete contrast, even the simplest animals are totally self-sufficient. We describe a current project1 which aims to construct autonomous robots with animal-like self-suffic...

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The ARK mobile robot project has designed and implemented a series of mobile robots capable of navigating within industrial environments without relying on arti cial landmarks or beacons. The ARK robots employ a novel sensor, Laser Eye, that combines vision and laser ranging to e ciently locate the robot in a map of its environment. Laser Eye allows self-location of the robot in both walled and...

This paper presents the first approach towards the main goal of developing a completely autonomous robot that serves as a local and remote guide

Navigation and application functionality of mobile robots rely on their collision-avoiding capabilities, also known as local navigation. We present the mobile robot ARTOS (Autonomous Robot for Transport and Service) that is particularly designed to operate in living environments and therefore faces the problem of fuzzy and unstructured obstacles. The local navigation architecture is motivated r...

In this communication we address the problem of shape recognition in the context of autonomous navigation of mobile robots. We present an association procedure which is able to establish the correspondence between elements of a learned fuzzy internal representation of the environment and currently perceived objects. Using this procedure, a mobile robot is able to periodically decrease the uncer...

This paper illustrates on an approach to control a mobile robot using DTMF tone through the GSM network. DTMF tones to control a mobile robot are generated by pressing the keypad buttons of a GSM mobile which is counted as remote. The robot receives the tones using another GSM mobile stuck with it. The mobile robot perceives the control tone by using a DTMF decoder IC and a preprogrammed microp...

This paper describes a practical path planner for nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles. The planner is based on building a one-dimensional, maximal clearance skeleton through the con guration space of the robot. However rather than using the Euclidean metric to determine clearance, a special metric which captures information about the nonholonomy of the robot is used. The robot na...

This study focuses on motion planning and reference trajectory tracking control of an autonomous agricultural vehicle to achieve precise row following turning. The smooth time-varying feedback method was adapted the system generate required commands. mathematical representations for controllers were constructed based car-like robot model. An algorithm detect trees rows orchard developed using H...