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Navigating an outdoor robot along continuous landmarks with ultrasonic sensing

✍ Scribed by Danny Ratner; Phillip McKerrow


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
406 KB
Volume
45
Category
Article
ISSN
0921-8890

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✦ Synopsis


Titan is a mobile robot built for outdoor navigation research. In this paper, we report on research into navigation along concrete paths through a park using the edge of the path as a continuous landmark. Titan measures its location relative to the path edge with a continuous transmission frequency modulated (CTFM) ultrasonic sensor and steers to follow a trajectory relative to the edge. When it loses the edge, it commences a recovery strategy.