Download or read book Gyro and Accelerometer Based Navigation System for a Mobile Autonomous Robot written by Roland J. Bloom (CAPT, USAF.) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation written by Amitava Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is devoted to the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. The conventional robot navigation systems, utilizing traditional sensors like ultrasonic, IR, GPS, laser sensors etc., suffer several drawbacks related to either the physical limitations of the sensor or incur high cost. Vision sensing has emerged as a popular alternative where cameras can be used to reduce the overall cost, maintaining high degree of intelligence, flexibility and robustness. This book includes a detailed description of several new approaches for real life vision based autonomous navigation algorithms and SLAM. It presents the concept of how subgoal based goal-driven navigation can be carried out using vision sensing. The development concept of vision based robots for path/line tracking using fuzzy logic is presented, as well as how a low-cost robot can be indigenously developed in the laboratory with microcontroller based sensor systems. The book describes successful implementation of integration of low-cost, external peripherals, with off-the-shelf procured robots. An important highlight of the book is that it presents a detailed, step-by-step sample demonstration of how vision-based navigation modules can be actually implemented in real life, under 32-bit Windows environment. The book also discusses the concept of implementing vision based SLAM employing a two camera based system.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Download or read book Where am I Sensors and Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robot Positioning written by L. Feng and published by . This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gyro Free Inertial Navigation Technology written by Hongjin Zhou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on gyro-free inertial navigation technology, which is used to measure not only linear motion parameters but also angular rates. Since no gyroscopes are used, the key technologies, such as initial alignment, attitude resolution, and error calibration, are very different than those used in traditional methods. Discussing each key technology in gyro-free inertial navigation system (GFINS) manufacture in a separate chapter, the book features easy-to-understand, detailed illustrations, to allow all those involved in inertial navigation to gain a better grasp of GFINS manufacture, including accelerometer setting principles; initial alignment; quaternion-based, attitude resolution algorithms; and accelerometer de-noise methods.
Download or read book Autonomous Mobile Robots written by Frank L. Lewis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been the goal of engineers to develop tools that enhance our ability to do work, increase our quality of life, or perform tasks that are either beyond our ability, too hazardous, or too tedious to be left to human efforts. Autonomous mobile robots are the culmination of decades of research and development, and their potential is seemingly unlimited. Roadmap to the Future Serving as the first comprehensive reference on this interdisciplinary technology, Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision Making, and Applications authoritatively addresses the theoretical, technical, and practical aspects of the field. The book examines in detail the key components that form an autonomous mobile robot, from sensors and sensor fusion to modeling and control, map building and path planning, and decision making and autonomy, and to the final integration of these components for diversified applications. Trusted Guidance A duo of accomplished experts leads a team of renowned international researchers and professionals who provide detailed technical reviews and the latest solutions to a variety of important problems. They share hard-won insight into the practical implementation and integration issues involved in developing autonomous and open robotic systems, along with in-depth examples, current and future applications, and extensive illustrations. For anyone involved in researching, designing, or deploying autonomous robotic systems, Autonomous Mobile Robots is the perfect resource.
Download or read book Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation written by Federico Cuesta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-03-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation builds upon the application of fuzzy logic to the area of intelligent control of mobile robots. Reactive, planned, and teleoperated techniques are considered, leading to the development of novel fuzzy control systems for perception and navigation of nonholonomic autonomous vehicles. The unique feature of this monograph lies in its comprehensive treatment of the problem, from the theoretical development of the various schemes down to the real-time implementation of algorithms on mobile robot prototypes. As such, the book spans different domains ranging from mobile robots to intelligent transportation systems, from automatic control to artificial intelligence.
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Download or read book Autonomous Robot Vehicles written by Ingemar J. Cox and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous robot vehicles are vehicles capable of intelligent motion and action without requiring either a guide or teleoperator control. The recent surge of interest in this subject will grow even grow further as their potential applications increase. Autonomous vehicles are currently being studied for use as reconnaissance/exploratory vehicles for planetary exploration, undersea, land and air environments, remote repair and maintenance, material handling systems for offices and factories, and even intelligent wheelchairs for the disabled. This reference is the first to deal directly with the unique and fundamental problems and recent progress associated with autonomous vehicles. The editors have assembled and combined significant material from a multitude of sources, and, in effect, now conviniently provide a coherent organization to a previously scattered and ill-defined field.
Download or read book Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys 2016 written by Yaxin Bi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings of the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference 2016 (IntelliSys 2016) offer a remarkable collection of papers on a wide range of topics in intelligent systems, and their applications to the real world. Authors hailing from 56 countries on 5 continents submitted 404 papers to the conference, attesting to the global importance of the conference’s themes. After being reviewed, 222 papers were accepted for presentation, and 168 were ultimately selected for these proceedings. Each has been reviewed on the basis of its originality, novelty and rigorousness. The papers not only present state-of-the-art methods and valuable experience from researchers in the related research areas; they also outline the field’s future development.
Download or read book Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Ashutosh Natraj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Advances in Autonomous Robotics, TAROS 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in August 2013. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 25 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as artificial intelligence, bio-inspired and aerial robotics, computer vision, control, humanoid and robotic arm, swarm robotics, verification and ethics.
Download or read book Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Roderich Groß and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, TAROS 2011, held in Sheffield, UK, in August/September 2011. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 29 two-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, robot learning, human-robot interaction, robot control, mobile robots, reinforcement learning, robot vehicles, swarm robotic systems, etc.
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Download or read book Autonomous Robot Navigation written by Wen Lik Dennis Lui and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this research is to develop an autonomous robot capable of self-navigation in an unknown environment. The proposed system performs autonomous navigation primarily based on the following visually perceived information:1) Range Estimation: A novel variable single/multi baseline omnidirectional stereovision system with an option to automatically select the baseline that is adjusted to the environment with the establishment of stereo correspondences and triangulation offloaded to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Additionally, as a safety measure, a low level reactive obstacle avoidance system using the disparity maps returned from a Bumblebee stereo camera range system provides a secondary source of pseudo range estimation to steer the mobile robot away from obstacles which the primary system has failed to detect. The two sensors complement one another due to the vertical stereo setup for the primary sensor and the horizontal stereo setup for the secondary sensor, where the former is more sensitive towards horizontal features whereas the latter is better for vertical features. 2) Motion Estimation: A 3DoF visual odometry system combining distance travelled estimated by a ground plane optical flow tracking system, with bearing estimated by the panoramic visual compass system. 3) Place Recognition: An appearance-based place recognition system using image signatures created from Haar decomposed omnidirectional images for loop closure detection. These components were integrated together into the mobile robot's navigation system which balances its effort amongst loop closing and exploration, decides its next course of action, performs path planning and executing the selected path. As the mobile robot engages the environment, the positional drift associated to the mobile robot's estimated location increases over time, thus, making it necessary to perform loop closing regularly by detecting it via the place recognition system and maintaining the global consistency of its internal representation of the environment (in the form of a topological map) by employing a relaxation technique. Due to the importance of performing loop closing regularly, an active loop closure detection and validation system, that enables the mobile robot to actively search for loop closures and to validate ambiguous loop closures, was proposed, developed and validated. A wide variety of experiments were conducted to verify and evaluate the performance of the entire system at both the system and subsystem levels. All experimental results were compared against ground truth where possible. Fully autonomous experiments combining all the above were conducted in indoor, semi-outdoor and outdoor environments. In addition, semi-autonomous experiments were conducted where the mobile robot, provided with a priori information in the form of a topological map built on a separate occasion in an offline manner, was required to reach a user specified destination (goal oriented). Finally, the proposed place recognition system was applied to the map merging problem where experimental results showed the improved robustness of loop closure and map merging detection when fused with a laser-based metric SLAM system.
Download or read book Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles written by Andrey V. Savkin and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safe Robot Navigation Among Moving and Steady Obstacles is the first book to focus on reactive navigation algorithms in unknown dynamic environments with moving and steady obstacles. The first three chapters provide introduction and background on sliding mode control theory, sensor models, and vehicle kinematics. Chapter 4 deals with the problem of optimal navigation in the presence of obstacles. Chapter 5 discusses the problem of reactively navigating. In Chapter 6, border patrolling algorithms are applied to a more general problem of reactively navigating. A method for guidance of a Dubins-like mobile robot is presented in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 introduces and studies a simple biologically-inspired strategy for navigation a Dubins-car. Chapter 9 deals with a hard scenario where the environment of operation is cluttered with obstacles that may undergo arbitrary motions, including rotations and deformations. Chapter 10 presents a novel reactive algorithm for collision free navigation of a nonholonomic robot in unknown complex dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Chapter 11 introduces and examines a novel purely reactive algorithm to navigate a planar mobile robot in densely cluttered environments with unpredictably moving and deforming obstacles. Chapter 12 considers a multiple robot scenario. For the Control and Automation Engineer, this book offers accessible and precise development of important mathematical models and results. All the presented results have mathematically rigorous proofs. On the other hand, the Engineer in Industry can benefit by the experiments with real robots such as Pioneer robots, autonomous wheelchairs and autonomous mobile hospital. - First book on collision free reactive robot navigation in unknown dynamic environments - Bridges the gap between mathematical model and practical algorithms - Presents implementable and computationally efficient algorithms of robot navigation - Includes mathematically rigorous proofs of their convergence - A detailed review of existing reactive navigation algorithm for obstacle avoidance - Describes fundamentals of sliding mode control
Download or read book Optoelectronics in Machine Vision Based Theories and Applications written by Rivas-Lopez, Moises and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensor technologies play a large part in modern life, as they are present in things like security systems, digital cameras, smartphones, and motion sensors. While these devices are always evolving, research is being done to further develop this technology to help detect and analyze threats, perform in-depth inspections, and perform tracking services. Optoelectronics in Machine Vision-Based Theories and Applications provides innovative insights on theories and applications of optoelectronics in machine vision-based systems. It also covers topics such as applications of unmanned aerial vehicle, autonomous and mobile robots, medical scanning, industrial applications, agriculture, and structural health monitoring. This publication is a vital reference source for engineers, technology developers, academicians, researchers, and advanced-level students seeking emerging research on sensor technologies and machine vision.
Download or read book Mobile Robots Navigation written by Luis Payá and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of mobile robots in diverse scenarios is considerably increasing to perform a variety of tasks. Among them, many developments have occurred in the fields of ground, underwater, and flying robotics. Independent of the environment where they move, navigation is a fundamental ability of mobile robots so that they can autonomously complete high-level tasks. This problem can be efficiently addressed through the following actions: First, it is necessary to perceive the environment in which the robot has to move, and extract some relevant information (mapping problem). Second, the robot must be able to estimate its position and orientation within this environment (localization problem). With this information, a trajectory toward the target points must be planned (path planning), and the vehicle must be reactively guided along this trajectory considering either possible changes or interactions with the environment or with the user (control). Given this information, this book introduces current frameworks in these fields (mapping, localization, path planning, and control) and, in general, approaches to any problem related to the navigation of mobile robots, such as odometry, exploration, obstacle avoidance, and simulation.
