Abstract Mobile Robots (MRs) and their applications are undergoing massive development,
requiring a diversity of autonomous or self-directed robots to fulfill numerous objectives and …

This new volume provides an overview of the Internet of Things along with its architectures,
its vital technologies, and their uses in our daily life. The book explores the integration of IoT …

In this paper, a novel decision-making method is proposed for autonomous mobile robot
navigation in an urban area where global positioning system (GPS) measurements are …

A path planning and control approach of a non-holonomic three-wheeled mobile robot
(WMR) for online navigation in road following and roundabout environments is presented in …

In this work we present the localization and navigation for a mobile robot in the outdoor
environment. It is based on fusing the data from IMU, differential GPS and visual odometry …

Road boundaries can give useful information for evaluating safe vehicle paths in intelligent
vehicles. Much previous research has studied road boundary detection, using different types …

We report on the design and the experimental results of DustCart, a wheeled autonomous
robot for door-to-door garbage collection. DustCart is able to navigate in urban …

Curbs are used as physical markers to delimit roads and to redirect traffic into multiple
directions (eg, islands and roundabouts). Detection of road curbs is a fundamental task for …

Curb detection and tracking is an essential component of autonomous vehicle operation in
urban environments. Detecting curbs is a particularly challenging task in urban …

Reliable real-time localization is a key component of autonomous industrial vehicle systems.
We consider the problem of using on-board vision to determine a vehicle's pose in a known …