Fuzzy navigation of a monitoring mobile robot

Advances on the design and construction of an autonomous mobile system aimed to measure temperature or another variable of interest at some recognizable marks are presented. The mobile robot is commanded to follow a line, avoiding non structured obstacles encountered along the line. The system is to detect marks along the path, where the robot shall stop and take measures of the variable of interest to form, for instance, a temperature map of the site that the mobile system traverses. Fuzzy logic is being used to develop the algorithms for the line following and for the obstacle avoidance tasks, minimizing the zigzag motion along the path.