...K.M. Ibrahim Khalilullah; Shunsuke Ota; Toshiyuki Yasuda; Mitsuru Jindai Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a cost-effective autonomous wheelchair robot navigation method that assists the aging population. Design/methodology/approach Navigation in outdoor environments is still...

...Huaqing Min; Chang'an Yi; Ronghua Luo; Jinhui Zhu Purpose – This paper aims to present a hybrid control approach that combines learning-based reactive control and affordance-based deliberate control for autonomous mobile robot navigation. Unlike many current navigation approaches which only use...