Real world application of a low-cost high-performance sensor system for autonomous mobile robots

Author

Burhanpurkar, V.P.

Author_Institution

Cyberworks Inc., Orillia, Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Sep 1994

Firstpage

1840

Abstract

Commercially successful autonomous mobile robot systems demand the development of new methodologies for dealing with “real world” requirements of very low cost and very high performance sensing technology for use in the constantly changing, dynamic, unstructured environments in which society expects such robots to operate unsupervised on a daily basis. This paper presents a new modular sensor system which, based on long term real world field trials appear to meet the basic requirements. Examples of test results in a wide variety of applications in unstructured environments are provided as well as future directions

Keywords

intelligent control; mobile robots; motion control; path planning; sensor fusion; ultrasonic transducer arrays; autonomous mobile robots; constantly changing dynamic unstructured environments; low-cost high-performance sensor system; modular sensor system; Colored noise; Composite materials; Costs; Immune system; Mobile robots; Navigation; Path planning; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Ultrasonic transducer arrays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems '94. 'Advanced Robotic Systems and the Real World', IROS '94. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1933-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1994.407609

Filename

407609