Today most civil and military navigation systems are based on or include GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). In environments where buildings or foliage can block or seriously impede the propagation of the GNSS signal, it is essential to aid the GNSS by
The simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) problem is one of the most central in robotics research. It asks if a mobile robot, put in an unknown location in an unknown environment, can incrementally build a consistent map of the environment and simultaneously
Using physical analogies when solving computational problems is not uncommon. The Electric Field Approach is such an analogy using potential fields for describing the situation in a robotic soccer match and for proposing the next step in optimizing the situation. The approach
This thesis presents a method for increasing the accuracy of an industrial robot by integrating a high accuracy measurement system in a feedback control loop. The performance of the system is evaluated on reconfiguring of ART modules and robotic drilling. Today robots
The long term goal behind this study is to achieve coordinated navigation of two or more robot vehicles, capable of autonomous operations in contaminated and hostile environments. One primary goal is to design and implement two basic functionalities named “Follow Me” and