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International Conference on Intelligent Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing

IRAM 2012: Trends in Intelligent Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing pp 103–110Cite as

Real Time Mobile Robot Navigation of Virtually Created Environments

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Abstract

Research in autonomous mobile robots is gaining much more attention in recent years, particularly in coordinating rescue missions and inspections of affected structures within disaster zones. It is the aim of this paper to contribute towards such advancements by introducing mobile robots navigation in virtually generated rescue mission environments. The randomly generated missions are mapped to real environments hosting mobile robots, which can unrestrictedly move in any open surroundings, without the need for the physical obstacles presence. To achieve this, a GUI was developed to randomly create missions of different sizes and complexities. The GUI offers the developer the choice of automatically generating such missions, edit them and/or create them. The robots may be programmed by various solving algorithms to complete the course and find a solution. The advantage of this approach is that it offers environment and robot real-time merging, robot performance tracking and rapid (on-the-fly) algorithms development. In this paper, the rescuing robot will follow an embedded Wall-Following algorithm.

Keywords

  • mobile robot
  • maze solving
  • rescue mission
  • robot navigation
  • virtual missions

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  1. Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus), Jalan Broga, 43500, Semenyih, Malaysia

    Fawaz Y. Annaz & Ahmed Hikmat Saeed

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  1. Monash University Sunway Campus, 46150, Malaysia

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Annaz, F.Y., Saeed, A.H. (2012). Real Time Mobile Robot Navigation of Virtually Created Environments. In: Ponnambalam, S.G., Parkkinen, J., Ramanathan, K.C. (eds) Trends in Intelligent Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing. IRAM 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35197-6_11

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