Title :
Goal-oriented mobile robot navigation using an odour sensor
Author :
Stella, Ettore ; Musio, F. ; Vasanelli, L. ; Distante, A.
Author_Institution :
Istituto Elaborazione Segnali ed Immagini, CNR, Bari, Italy
Abstract :
Mobile robot navigation seen as trail following is the most industrial exploited implementation of autonomous vehicles. Normally, expensive magnetic trail are used. In this paper a cheaper odour trail is proposed. In fact, a vehicle equipped with two odour sensors is able to follow a felt ribbon soaked with odour marker. The advantage of use of this technology is the cheapness. Experimental results on the authors´ test vehicle SAURO are shown
Keywords :
chemical sensors; distance measurement; industrial robots; mobile robots; navigation; path planning; ultrasonic applications; SAURO; autonomous vehicles; goal-oriented mobile robot navigation; odour sensor; odour trail; Indoor environments; Inertial navigation; Magnetic sensors; Mobile robots; Path planning; Remotely operated vehicles; Testing; Uncertainty; Vehicle detection; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Vehicles '95 Symposium., Proceedings of the
Conference_Location :
Detroit, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2983-X
DOI :
10.1109/IVS.1995.528273
