• DocumentCode
    2331061
  • Title

    Robust obstacle avoidance in unknown and cramped environments

  • Author

    Feiten, W. ; Bauer, R. ; Lawitzky, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Corp. Res. & Dev., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    8-13 May 1994
  • Firstpage
    2412
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a novel local obstacle avoidance module. The main idea of the steer angle field approach is to discard all steer angles that, given the nonholonomic kinematics of the robot, would lead to collisions within a certain hit distance. The approach has been implemented and tested over a period of one year on our mobile robot. Results have shown that the robot is able to operate robustly in unknown, unprepared and cramped in-door environments for hours
  • Keywords
    kinematics; mobile robots; path planning; collisions; hit distance; indoor environments; mobile robot; nonholonomic kinematics; robust obstacle avoidance; steer angle field approach; unknown cramped environments; Histograms; Kinematics; Mobile robots; Planning; Research and development; Robot motion; Robot sensing systems; Robustness; Sonar equipment; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-5330-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.1994.351150
  • Filename
    351150