Application of intelligent control to autonomous search of parking place and parking of vehicles

Abstract

This chapter has presented an intelligent system for autonomous parking of vehicles, including intelligent navigation and searching of parking place. Thus, an intelligent control method has been implemented. This method uses soft-computing techniques to: (1) take advantage of knowledge of expert drivers, (2) manage imprecise information from sensors, (3) navigate searching for a parking place and (4) select and perform a parking manoeuvre. Soft-computing techniques facilitate combining different strategies, providing the adaptation of the control motion to the environment and improving manoeuvre performance. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated using the non holonomic mobile robots ROMEO-3R and ROMEO-4R, developed at the University of Seville.