Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems

9	Robot Navigation and Guidance Jitendra R. Raol

CONTENTS

9.1      Introduction

9.2      Robot Navigation

9.2.1      Inertial Navigation

9.2.2      Position Determination via Fixed Beacons

9.2.3      Optical or Ultrasonic Imaging

9.2.4      Optical Stereovision

9.3      Robot Guidance

9.3.1      Wire-Guided Robot

9.3.2      Painted-Line-Guided Robot

9.3.3      Dead Reckoning

9.3.4      Tactile Detection

9.3.4.1      Isolated Binary Contact Sensor

9.3.4.2      Analogue Sensors

9.3.4.3      A Sensors’ Matrix

9.3.5      Detection of Proximity

9.3.5.1      Infrared Proximity Detection

9.4      Summary of the Navigation Task

9.5      Mathematics for Navigation and Guidance

9.6      Mobile Robot Tracking Using Fuzzy Logic

References

9.1      INTRODUCTION ...