Domestic robots, such as vacuum cleaners or lawn mowers, are mostly based on a low-cost design to make them affordable for the consumer. This often results in such robots being equipped with only simple sensors, such as in-/outside area detectors for …
Abstract The Segway Loomo is a self-balancing segway robot, which is constantly balanced by an internal control system. A local path planning strategy was developed in advance for this robot. For local path planning, a motion model of the robot is needed to determine the effect of velocity commands on the robot’s pose. In the implemented local path planner, a simple motion model of the robot is used, which does not model the effect of the segway robot’s internal control on its motion.
Detecting cost-effectively and accurately the working area for autonomous lawn mowers is key for widespread automation of garden care. At present this is realized by means of perimeter wire, which leads to high setup and maintenance costs. Here, we …
Tuning parameters is crucial for the performance of localization and mapping algorithms. In general, the tuning of the parameters requires expert knowledge and is sensitive to information about the structure of the environment. In order to design …