Robot audition system can greatly improve the adaptability of mobile robots especially in the case of robot vision system can’t work effectively. So an acoustic localization system using microphone array for mobile robot is proposed in this paper. In order to localize the sound source target, the microphone array used in the system consists of four microphones which were placed respectively on ...

RoboCup competitions were first proposed by Mackworth in 1993. The main goal of this scientific competition is to exploit, improve and integrate the methods and techniques from robotics, machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) disciplines to create an autonomous team of soccer playing robots. At the time of preparing this chapter, RoboCup is organized in several different leagues includ...

We are interested in the real time pose estimation of a group of networked mobile robots based on exteroceptive information from their vision systems. Additionally, we are also interested in simultaneously tracking a rigid unknown object. We present a localization and object tracking approach based on statistical operators and simple graph searching algorithms. The approach was implemented in o...

Purpose – In this paper, two omni-directional mobile vehicles are designed and controlled implementing distributed mechatronics controllers. Omni-directionality is the ability of mobile vehicle to move instantaneously in any direction. It is achieved by implementing Mecanum wheels in one vehicle and conventional wheels in another vehicle. The control requirements for omni-directionality using t...

The Combination of path planning and path following is the main purpose of this paper. This paper describes the developed practical approach to motion control of the MRL small size robots. An intelligent controller is applied to control omni-directional robots motion in simulation and real environment respectively. The Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller (BELBIC), based on LQR...

Map information is important for self localization and path planning when mobile robots accomplish autonomous tasks. We use 3D environment model containing color data and structure data of the environment. We propose a method for image memory based navigation of a mobile robot with 3D-2D edge matching by using a 3D environment model. Our proposed self localization method is composed of two phas...

An Ad-hoc network is a dynamic network farmed on demand by a group of nodes without any pre-existing network infrastructure. Self configurability and easy deployment feature of the Mobile Ad-hoc network (MANET) resulted in numerous applications in modern era. An efficient and effective medium access control (MAC) protocol is essential in ad-hoc network for proper sharing of channel. The omnidir...

Measurement of a surrounding environment structure is important for mobile robots to make autonomous locomotion. In this paper, we propose a method for three-dimensional measurement of the environment using an omni-directional camera installed on a mobile robot. The method is based on structure from motion under the assumption that the environment is static. Along with the image sequence, it tr...

RoboCup (http://www.robocup.org) is an international worldwide initiative that aims to promote research and development in mobile robotics and related areas. Robotic soccer is one of the proposed problems since it represents a challenge of high complexity, in which fully autonomous robots cooperate in order to achieve a common goal (win the game). Within Robocup soccer competitions, the Middle-...