MOBILE ROBOTS

The Emmy III robot is designed to achieve a set point in an environment which is divided into coordinates. The Emmy III robot may be considered as a system which is divided into three other subsystems: the planning subsystem, the sensing subsystem and the mechanical subsystem. The planning subsystem[r]

Mobile Robots Moving Intelligence

Figure 1.12B21 of iRobot is a sophisticated mobile robot with up to three Intel Pentium processors on board. Ithas a large variety of sensors for high-performance navigation tasks (http://www.irobot.com/rwi/). © iRobot Inc.8 Chapter 1For example, AGV (autonomous guided vehicle) robots[r]

The required mechanical synchronization can be accomplished in a number of ways, the mostcommon being a chain, belt, or gear drive. Carnegie Mellon University has implemented anelectronically synchronized version on one of their Rover series robots, with dedicated drive motorsfor each of the[r]

first question, that is: robot positioning in its environment. Perhaps the most important result from surveying the vast body of literature on mobile robotpositioning is that to date there is no truly elegant solution for the problem. The many partialsolutions can roughly be categorized into[r]

A typical image processing system is shown in Figure 1.1. A host computerreceives images from a CCD camera, performs image recognition algorithms andtransmits control signals to the mobile robot. Such configuration setup is shownin Figure 1.1 is often used in many mobile robotic system[r]

Designing AutonomousMobile Robotsby John HollandAMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDONNEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGOSAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYODesigning Autonomous Mobile RobotsNewnes is an imprint of Elsevier200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803, USALinacre House, Jo[r]

193 system for the robot is often used since the robot is mounted on a fixed location. For autonomous mobile robotic network, there are two ways to incorporate a vision system. One is to have a distributed camera network located in fixed locations (Hoover & Olsen, 2000; Yokoya et al.,[r]