Indoor Navigation of a Wheeled Mobile Robot

Abstract

Important advances have been made in the last period in the robotic domain. Mobile robots are in an accentuated development. The navigation of the mobile robots requires solutions for the following problems: the establishment of the current position, the motion planning and the avoidance of obstacles. This paper approaches the problem of indoor navigation of a wheeled mobile robot. The X80 robot from Dr. Robot was used. The trajectory of the robot is computed on a PC which sends all the motion commands wireless. The robot sends to the PC video images, through its web camera and information about the temperature, proximity, position of the wheels and the level of the power source battery. An obstacle avoidance algorithm based on odometry was implemented.