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Design and Development of Intelligent Autonomous Robots

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Intelligent Autonomous Systems

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 275))

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The present chapter deals with the issues related to design and development of autonomous mobile robots. One of the major issues in developing an intelligent and autonomous robot is to design an appropriate scheme for planning its motion without any human intervention. Both conventional potential field method as well as soft computing-based approaches have been developed for the said purpose. Initially, the performances of all the approaches have been studied through computer simulations. Thereafter, real experiments are conducted to test the effectiveness of the said approaches. A camera-based vision system has been used to collect information of the environment, while carrying out the real experiments.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, 713209, India

    Nirmal Baran Hui

  2. Soft Computing Lab. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721 302, India

    Dilip Kumar Pratihar

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    Dilip Kumar Pratihar

  2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Hui, N.B., Pratihar, D.K. (2010). Design and Development of Intelligent Autonomous Robots. In: Pratihar, D.K., Jain, L.C. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11676-6_3

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