This paper describes research on the ARK (Autonomous Mobile Robot in a Known Environment) project. The technical objective of the project is to build a robot that can navigate in a complex industrial environment using maps with permanent structures. The environment is not altered in any way by adding easily identifiable beacons and the robot relies on naturally occurring objects to use as visual landmarks for navigation. The robot is equipped with various sensors that can detect unmapped obstacles, landmarks and objects. In this paper we describe the robot's industrial environment, it's architecture, a novel combined range and vision sensor and our recent results in controlling the robot in the real-time detection of objects using their color and in the processing of the robot's range and vision sensor data for navigation.


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    Title :

    ARK: Autonomous mobile robot in an industrial environment


    Contributors:
    Nickerson, S. B. (author) / Jasiobedzki, P. (author) / Jenkin, M. (author) / Jepson, A. (author) / Milios, E. (author) / Down, B. (author) / Service, J. R. R. (author) / Terzopoulos, D. (author) / Tsotsos, J. (author) / Wilkes, D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1994-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    ARK: Autonomous Mobile Robot in an Industrial Environment

    Nickerson, S. B. / Service, J. R. R. / Wilkes, D. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1994



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