— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
With the development of service robots and with the emerging concept of the ubiquitous world, localization of a mobile robot has become a popular issue. Even though several localiz...
— An omni-directional moving platform with four wheels is developed and its controller is designed for tracking desired trajectories. The four wheels of the platform are torque c...
— One of the fundamental problems of the mobile robots is self-localization, i.e. to estimate the self-position by comparing sensor data and a map. In non-stationary environments...
Kanji Tanaka, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Hongbin Zha, Eiji ...
Mapping opaque and confined environments such as caves and pipes is a challenging problem for mobile robots because sensor information is severely limited to the immediate proximit...