Proposal of algorithms for navigation and obstacles avoidance of autonomous mobile robot

Abstract

This paper presents algorithms to navigate and avoid obstacles for an in-door autonomous mobile robot. A laser range finder is used to obtain 3D images of the environment. A new algorithm, namely 3D-to-2D image pressure and barriers detection (IPaBD), is proposed to create a 2D global map from the 3D images. This map is basic to design the trajectory. A tracking controller is developed to control the robot to follow the trajectory. The obstacle avoidance is addressed with the use of sonar sensors. An improved vector field histogram (Improved-VFH) algorithm is presented with improvements to overcome some limitations of the original VFH. Experiments have been conducted and the result is encouraged.