Building Similarity Maps Of The Environment Using SONAR Information For The Navigation Of The Mobile Robots

The objective of the work is to present a representation called similarity map based on some results in the evaluation of the SONAR system of a mobile robot. As environment a corner of our lab it is considered. Based on some reference positions, where the robot is making a complete rotation, some test positions are considered with the task of recognition of the environment, in order to be able to recognize the position. Using similarity measures based on Euclidian distance, similarities maps are defined and estimated. The results are useful in defining complex strategies of navigation using SONAR systems

EGOR: design, development, implementation an entry in the 1994 AAAI robot competition

Journal ArticleEGOR, an entry in the 1994 AAAI Robot Competition, was built by ate am from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Utah. The constraints imposed by the competition rules, and by cost and time, led to the development of a system composed of off-the- shelf parts based on a mobile base built by Transitions Research Corporation and an Intel 486DX33-based laptop computer. The work included design, subsystem part procurement, fabrication, software development, testing, and system evaluation