In this article, a fast and reliable map-merging algorithm is proposed to produce a global two dimensional map of an indoor environment in a multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) process. In SLAM process, to find its way in this environment, a robot should be able to determine its position relative to a map formed from its observations. To solve this complex problem, simultan...

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...

As mobile robots have become widespread in indoor environments with narrow and crowded corridors, such as institutions, the demand for has recently increased, especially service purposes (homes, hospitals, nursing homes elderly). The most important factor of autonomous navigation is robot's awareness its surroundings, ability to move from one place another smoothly safely terms avoiding obstacl...

In this paper, preliminary results from research for building a RoboSot category robot soccer team are reported. In the RoboSot category, no central station or over-head camera is allowed. Therefore several issues such as sensors, mechanisms and CPU boards must be taken into consideration before building an autonomous and intelligent system for this category. Each robot must have appropriate se...

Swarm robotics is the study of large groups of relatively homogeneous robots and their task solving capabilities. The robots of a swarm robotic system are relatively simple and incapable when compared to the tasks that they are expected to accomplished [10]. Thus, it is important to have enough units and a distributed control law that is effective. Because the individual behaviour of social ins...

Omni-directional vision allows for the development of techniques for mobile robot navigation that have minimum perceptual requirements. In this work, we focus on robot navigation algorithms that do not require range information or metric maps of the environment. More specifically, we present a homing strategy that enables a robot to return to its home position after executing a long path. The p...

This paper describes a minimalist mobile robot design approach that offers a high locomotive efficiency, and is therefore well suited to mesoscale robot design. The authors have incorporated this approach into the development of a dynamically controlled piezoelectrically actuated mesoscale robot quadruped. The design described utilizes a lightly damped skeletal structure that generates locomoti...