Path planning for autonomous mobile robots: A review

JR Sanchez-Ibanez, CJ Pérez-del-Pulgar… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Providing mobile robots with autonomous capabilities is advantageous. It allows one to
dispense with the intervention of human operators, which may prove beneficial in economic …

Omnidirectional mobile robots, mechanisms and navigation approaches

H Taheri, CX Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2020 - Elsevier
A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

Optimal rough terrain trajectory generation for wheeled mobile robots

TM Howard, A Kelly - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
An algorithm is presented for wheeled mobile robot trajectory generation that achieves a
high degree of generality and efficiency. The generality derives from numerical linearization …

FIRM: Sampling-based feedback motion-planning under motion uncertainty and imperfect measurements

AA Agha-Mohammadi… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we present feedback-based information roadmap (FIRM), a multi-query
approach for planning under uncertainty which is a belief-space variant of probabilistic …

A simple learning strategy for high-speed quadrocopter multi-flips

S Lupashin, A Schöllig, M Sherback… - … conference on robotics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a simple and intuitive policy gradient method for improving parametrized
quadrocopter multi-flips by combining iterative experiments with information from a first …

Trajectory tracking of an omni-directional wheeled mobile robot using a model predictive control strategy

C Wang, X Liu, X Yang, F Hu, A Jiang, C Yang - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper addresses trajectory tracking of an omni-directional mobile robot (OMR) with
three mecanum wheels and a fully symmetrical configuration. The omni-directional wheeled …

Real-time indoor autonomous vehicle test environment

JP How, B Behihke, A Frank, D Dale… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To investigate and develop unmanned vehicle systems technologies for autonomous
multiagent mission platforms, we are using an indoor multivehicle testbed called real-time …

A Bezier curve based path planning in a multi-agent robot soccer system without violating the acceleration limits

KG Jolly, RS Kumar, R Vijayakumar - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an efficient, Bezier curve based approach for the path planning of a
mobile robot in a multi-agent robot soccer system. The boundary conditions required for …

Omni-directional mobile robot controller based on trajectory linearization

Y Liu, JJ Zhu, RL Williams II, J Wu - Robotics and autonomous systems, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, a nonlinear controller design for an omni-directional mobile robot is presented.
The robot controller consists of an outer-loop (kinematics) controller and an inner-loop …

Minimum-time speed optimisation over a fixed path

T Lipp, S Boyd - International Journal of Control, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we investigate the problem of optimising the speed of a vehicle over a fixed
path for minimum time traversal. We utilise a change of variables that has been known since …