Mobile Robots Navigation in Industrial Environments

Autonomous mobile robots need the capability to explore and navigate in dynamic or unknown environments in order to be useful in a wide range of industrial applications. In the past two decades, a number of different approaches have been proposed to develop flexible and efficient navigation systems.Despite the potentials of the approaches and algorithms developed by the robotics community, industrial applications of autonomous mobile robots are not yet widespread. This paper reflects the efforts made by our work group to have useful navigation systems in industrial applications.