...Ankur Bhargava; Mohammad Suhaib; Ajay K.S. Singholi Purpose Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) operating in dense and dynamically changing environments require robust navigation and reliable obstacle-avoidance capabilities. This study aims to propose an intelligent navigation framework to enable AMRs...

... sensors have the potential to revolutionise navigation systems in airborne, land and marine robots and overcome limitations of GPS and inertial measurement units. Magnetic sensors also have a role in health care in the control of robotic prostheses and exoskeletons and in brain–computer interface...

... the original concept have been commercialised. Lidars are used in all manner of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) across a broad sector of industries for navigation and have recently started to penetrate the domestic robot market. They have the potential to play a central role in the emerging families...

... different companies are like and what they’re working on. Networking outside academia still feels underemphasized, but it can be really insightful to better understand what the challenges in today’s commercialization of robotics are. Robotics Navigation Mobile robots Service robots Autonomous...

...Rob Bogue Purpose This aims to provide details of new sensor technologies and developments with potential applications in robotic tactile sensing and navigation. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this provides examples of tactile sensing research. This is followed...

...Bin Li; Yu Yang; Chengshuai Qin; Xiao Bai; Lihui Wang Purpose Focusing on the problem that the visual detection algorithm of navigation path line in intelligent harvester robot is susceptible to interference and low accuracy, a navigation path detection algorithm based on improved random sampling...

... the sensing range, following which AACO is activated to choose the next stand-point. This is how the robot travels to the specified target point. Findings Navigational analysis is carried out by implementing the technique developed here using single and multiple mobile robots. Its efficiency...

... they can use motion planning and automate autonomy in everything from factories to humanoid robots. Control Robotics Navigation Path planning Robot design Autonomous robots Figure 1 Dr James Kuffner, CEO at Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development Kuffner: I was just...

...Shuhuan Wen; Xueheng Hu; Zhen Li; Hak Keung Lam; Fuchun Sun; Bin Fang Purpose This paper aims to propose a novel active SLAM framework to realize avoid obstacles and finish the autonomous navigation in indoor environment. Design/methodology/approach The improved fuzzy optimized Q-Learning...

... navigation techniques. It then discusses bioinspired locomotion and considers a selection of robotic products and developments inspired by snakes, bats, diving birds, fish and dragonflies. Finally, brief concluding comments are drawn. Findings The application of design concepts that mimic...

...Priyadarshi Biplab Kumar; Dayal R. Parhi; Chinmaya Sahu Purpose With enhanced use of humanoids in demanding sectors of industrial automation and smart manufacturing, navigation and path planning of humanoid forms have become the centre of attraction for robotics practitioners. This paper aims...

... mobile platform with two wheels driven by two DC motors separately. In this article, a novel motion planning strategy named as DAYANI arc contour intelligent technique has been proposed for navigation of the two-wheeled self-balancing robot in a global environment populated by obstacles. The developed...

... the time and we cannot field robots that can not run in a rain storm. That would be a good technical challenge to get solved. Navigation Mobile robots Autonomous robots Field robotics Collision avoidance Hazardous Figure 1 Mel Torrie, founder, CEO and president of Autonomous Solutions...

... that the new humanoid system platform was not progressing fast enough to be able to qualify for the upcoming 2013 DRC Trials (Figure 5). Figure 5 DRC-HUBO drills at the 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Control Navigation Mobile robots Humanoid robots Autonomous robots Hazardous...

... of the trucks the route once via teach-repeat. Our cameras’ navigation systems are so precise that the rest of the robots can share the other robot’s route. We have our cameras arranged and the size of the lensing and the field of view such that the robot gets a complete 360-degree view, including seeing...

... environment. Path planning is the key issue of USV navigation. A lot of research works were done on the global and local path planning. However, little attention was given to combining global path planning with local path planning. Design/methodology/approach – A search of shortcut Dijkstra algorithm...

... by autonomous, mobile robots. Design/methodology/approach – Following a short introduction, this article first discusses positional sensing and navigation by mobile robots, including self-driving cars, automated guided vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs...

... a well-defined navigation scheme. Findings – The system can track pedestrians from static position to 3.46 m/s (running). It handles occlusions, crossings or miss-detections, keeping track of the position even if the pedestrian is only detected in 55/per cent of the observations. Moreover...

... at any time without special instruments. Then, a visual-inertial odometry scheme is introduced to evaluate the phone sensors-based path estimation performance. Findings – Boundary conditions of using smartphone in a UAV navigation system are found. Both indoor and outdoor localization experiments...

... are desirable for navigation and control purposes. Design/methodology/approach – The estimation was performed by fusioning the signals of three inertial sensors: the ROV’s own underwater compass (which operates roughly at 10 Hz or less), the ROV’s embedded gyro and an additional angular rate sensor...