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IJACTAICIT
2010
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Modified Vector Field Histogram with a Neural Network Learning Model for Mobile Robot Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
In this work, a Modified Vector Field Histogram (MVFH) has been developed to improve path planning and obstacle avoidance for a wheeled driven mobile robot. It permits the detecti...
Bahaa I. Kazem, Ali H. Hamad, Mustafa M. Mozael
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Time-varying path following control for port-Hamiltonian systems
This paper is devoted to path following control for port-Hamiltonian systems whose desired path is timevarying. Most of the existing results on path following can only take care of...
Mitsuru Taniguchi, Kenji Fujimoto
DAGSTUHL
2003
14 years 8 days ago
Agent-Environment Interaction in Visual Homing
Abstract. This study illustrates how obstacle avoidance can emerge from a visual homing strategy, caused by the intrinsic geometric structure of the environment. An example is show...
Verena Vanessa Hafner
ICANN
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Minimalistic Approach to 3D Obstacle Avoidance Behavior from Simulated Evolution
We present a minimalistic approach to establish obstacle avoidance and course stabilization behavior of a simulated flying autonomous agent in a 3D virtual world. The agent uses v...
Titus R. Neumann, Susanne A. Huber, Heinrich H. B&...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Go with the Flow: Synthetic Vision for Autonomous Animated Creatures
Real-time obstacle avoidance and low-level navigation is a fundamental problem for autonomous animated creatures. Here we present an ethologically inspired approach to this proble...
Bruce Blumberg
SEAL
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolutionary Programming-Based Uni-vector Field Method for Fast Mobile Robot Navigation
Most of the obstacle avoidance techniques do not consider the robot orientation or its nal angle at the target position. These techniques deal with the robot position only and are ...
Yong-Jae Kim, Dong-Han Kim, Jong-Hwan Kim
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Behavior-Based Formation Control
Dynamical systems theory is used here as a theoretical language and tool to design a distributed control archictecture that generates navigation in formation, integrated with obst...
Sergio Monteiro, Estela Bicho
ICRA
2002
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation
Applications in mobile manipulation require sophisticated motion execution skills to address issues like redundancy resolution, reactive obstacle avoidance, and transitioning betw...
Oliver Brock, Oussama Khatib, Sriram Viji
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Obstacle avoidance in formation
Abstract— In this paper, we present an approach to obstacle avoidance for a group of unmanned vehicles moving in formation. The goal of the group is to move through a partially u...
Petter Ögren, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
IAT
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Possible Approach to the Development of Robotic Multi-Agent Systems
The design of a an agent system for robotics is a problem that involves aspects coming from many different disciplines (robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, softwa...
Massimo Cossentino, Luca Sabatucci, Antonio Chella