Sensor-based fuzzy reactive navigation of a mobile robot throughlocal target switching

  • Authors:
  • W. L. Xu;S. K. Tso

  • Affiliations:
  • Inst. of Technol. & Eng., Massey Univ., Palmerston North;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Fuzzy reactive control, incorporating a local target switching scheme, is applied to the automatic navigation of an intelligent mobile robot in an unknown and changing environment. Sensed-ranging signals and relative target position signals are input to the fuzzy controller. The steering angle and the velocity change are inferred to drive the mobile robot. A reactive rule base governing the robot behavior is synthesized from the human heuristics with respect to various situations of environment. A local target switching scheme is proposed to serve as a front-end processor of the fuzzy active controller and to deal with the local trapping and wandering cycle problem in the navigation of a behavior based mobile robot. The algorithm is described, together with some particular considerations about implementation. Efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach are verified through simulation and experiments conducted on a Nomad 200 mobile robot