Improving collision avoidance for mobile robots in partially known environments: The beam curvature method

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 205-219

  Fernández, Joaquín ^a   Sanz, Rafael ^a   Benayas, Javier A ^a   Diéguez, Amador R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Mobile robot; Obstacle avoidance; Real time; Robot control; Robot navigation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; NAVIGATION; POSITION CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

BEAM CURVATURE METHOD (BCM); CURVATURE VELOCITY METHOD (CVM);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 1842484384     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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