The first flight of NASA's New Millennium Program, DeepSpace 1, will include a new navigational technology: anautonomous optical navigation system. The D S 1Navigation system will be the first use of autonomousnavigation in deep space. The task for this system is to 1)perform interplanetary cruise orbit determination, usingimages of distant asteroids, 2) control and ...

This paper surveys the problem of navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Marine robotics technology has undergone a phase of dramatic increase in capability in recent years. Navigation is one of the key challenges that limits our capability to use AUVs to address problems of critical importance to society. Good navigation information is essential for safe operation and recovery o...

Autonomous off-road navigation of robotic ground vehicles has important applications on Earth and in space exploration. Progress in this domain has been retarded by the limited lookahead range of 3-D sensors and by the difficulty of preprogramming systems to understand the traversability of the wide variety of terrain they can encounter. Enabling robots to learn from experience may alleviate bo...

The purpose of this study was to investigate novel methods on an unmanned sailing boat, which enables it to sail fully autonomously, navigate safely, and perform long-term missions. The author used robotic sailing boat prototypes for field experiments as his main research method. Two robotic sailing boats have been developed especially for this purpose. A compact software model of a sailing boa...

Mobile robot vision-based navigation has been the source of countless research contributions, from the domains of both vision and control. Vision is becoming more and more common in applications such as localization, automatic map construction, autonomous navigation, path following, inspection, monitoring or risky situation detection. This survey presents those pieces of work, from the nineties...

In this paper, we report how to navigate a mobile robot using natural landmarks such as trees and hedges on outdoor campus of university. At rst, we propose an automatic natural landmark acquisition by Landmark Agent (LmA). Next, we propose an autonomous navigation using the acquired natural landmarks. Furthermore, we will discuss the di culties of outdoor navigation using natural landmarks thr...

There are many aerial missions in hostile urban and indoor environments where human intervention is considered difficult or dangerous. Accomplishment of such missions require use of unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles (UAV). Unmanned air vehicles for such missions must be equipped with a fully autonomous navigation system. Many methods that have been proposed for navigation of autonomous system...

For many navigation tasks, a single sensing modality is sufficiently rich to accomplish the desired motion control goals; for practical autonomous outdoor navigation, a single sensing modality is a crippling limitation on what tasks can he undertaken. In the research detailed in this paper, we open the door for a whole new suite of real-time autonomous navigation tasks previously unattainable. ...

Autonomous navigation of mobile robots in an unknown cluttered environment is quite difficult task in the recent years. Many researchers have been developed several efficient methodologies in the navigation of mobile robot. The main objective of the mobile robot is to determine an optimal path for navigation, that means the robot should be navigate safely from the source to the pre-defined dest...