Author:De Villiers, MDate:Feb 2011This research project proposes the development of an autonomous, omnidirectional vehicle that will be used for general indoor service applications. A suggested trial application for this service robot will be to deliver printouts to various ...Read more
Author:Namoshe, M; Kumile, CM; Tlale, NSDate:Oct 2007An increase in the number of mobile robot users has lead to the design and implementation of cooperative autonomous mobile robots. Autonomous robots require the ability to build maps of an unknown environment while simultaneously using these ...Read more
Author:Burke, Michael G; Brink, WDate:Aug 2011This paper presents a gain-scheduling controller for a human-following robot. Typical controllers use either a point-to-point approach where the relative orientation between human and platform is uncontrolled, or a direction-based approach ...Read more
Author:Matebese, B; Banda, MK; Utete, SDate:Oct 2012Sampling-based methods such as Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) have been successfully used in solving motion planning problems in high-dimensional and complex environments. The RRT algorithm is the most
popular and has the ability to ...Read more