Mobile Robot Navigation For Recovering Local Minimum Using Ultrasonic Sensor

초음파센서를 이용한 이동 로봇의 지역 최소 회복을 위한 주행 알고리즘

  • 명기호 (아주대학교 전자 공학부) ;
  • 양동훈 (아주대학교 전자 공학부) ;
  • 유영동 (아주대학교 전자 공학부) ;
  • 홍석교 (아주대학교 전자 공학부)
  • Published : 1999.07.19

Abstract

An ultrasonic sensor is one of most popular sensor used to navigate mobile robots within environments containing obstacles. But many navigation algorithm have studied because of the drawback of ultrasonic sensor such that poor directionality, frequent misreadings, specular reflections. Also, the most crucial drawback of this algorithm, that is VFF, VFM, EDM, PFM, WFM, GFM etc. has been that the mobile robot may become trapped in a local minimum. In this paper, we present a theoretical study of a navigation algorithm which integrals a heuristic-search local minimum (or trap) recovery method with a vector-field based method to maneuver cylindric mobile robots in unknown of unstructured environments. Also, an autonomous mobile robot uses dead-reckoning to estimate the current position and orientation of a mobile robot.

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