CCO - 728 - Autonomous Mobile Robots

Total of Credits: 8
Hours for Theoretical Classes: 60
Hours for Exercises or Seminars: 60

Objective

Provide theoretical concepts and practical aspects related to the autonomous mobile robots, focusing in navigation control systems. The main goal is to study, design, implement and test intelligent control algorithms into simulated and real mobile robots, applied into practical tasks, as for example: navigation, path planning, navigation with obstacle avoidance, pick up and collect objects

Catalog Description

  • Introduce a general overview of the mobile robots field (tele-operation/tele-presence, semi-autonomous, autonomous mobile robots), presenting the history, evolution and most known techniques used in mobile robot navigation
  • Introduce the main concepts about components and modules that compose an autonomous mobile robot, including microprocessors, embedded systems, sensors and actuators
  • Concepts related to the implementation of intelligent and autonomous mobile robots: control architectures, robot design (simulation, hardware and software components), navigation concepts and algorithms
  • Discuss examples of tasks and practical applications of mobile robots: mapping, path planning, navigation with obstacle avoidance, pick up and collect objects.

Bibliography

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  2. The Robotics Primer, Maja J. Mataric, MIT Press, 2007.
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  6. Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation. Springer-Verlag. Primeira Edição 2005.
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