Indoor navigation of a mobile robot

Service robots are those intended to serve human beings and to replace them in very wide range. Service robots will be suitable for numerous areas such as medical division, construction, hotel and gastronomy, and household. One of the basic technical requirements on such robots are the capability of free movement. It means that the robot should move in partially or fully unknown environment using different sensors detecting the environmental changes. This paper deals with the navigation of a mobile robot in an indoor environment with the focus of the collision avoidance of robots for service application. As a test bed the mobile robot Nomad200 is used. A collision avoiding method is introduced and experimental results are reported