Dynamic World Model with the Lazy Potential Function

  • Konrad Kułakowski
  • Tomasz Stępień
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6682)

Abstract

One of the fundamental skills of an autonomous mobile robot is its ability to determine a collision-free path in a dynamically changing environment. To meet this challenge, robots often have their own world model - an internal representation of the environment. Such a representation allows them to predict future changes to the environment, and thus to plan further moves and actions.

This paper presents an agent-oriented dynamic world model built on top of asynchronous non-homogeneous cellular automaton, equipped with the new collision-free path finding algorithm based on a lazy potential field function. The presented abstract model is preliminarily verified using a specially designed middleware library supporting cellular model simulations.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Konrad Kułakowski
    • 1
  • Tomasz Stępień
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of AutomaticsAGH University of Science and TechnologyCracowPoland

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