More than 1 billion people in the world are estimated to experience significant disability.
These disabilities can impact people's ability to independently conduct activities of daily …

Robotic walkers are a promising solution for physical and cognitive support to older adults.
This paper proposes a low cost path following strategy combining the advantages of a …

We consider a robotic walking assistant used to guide senior users across a crowded space.
The problem we address is how to guide the user using motorized back wheels. Our strategy …

One of the most important barriers towards a widespread use of mobile robots in
unstructured, human populated and possibly a-priori unknown work environments is the …

A new solution to the multipoint Markov-Dubins problem via iterative dynamic programming
is herein presented. The shortest path problem connecting a sequence of given points in the …

Service robots are increasingly applied in real life environments populated with human
beings. In such a challenging scenario, the autonomous robots have to avoid collision in a …

The most effective solutions for indoor positioning of mobile agents typically rely on multi-
sensor data fusion. In particular, good trade-offs in terms of accuracy, scalability and …

We consider the problem of guiding a senior user along a path using a robotic walking
assistant. This is a particular type of path following problem, for which most of the solutions …

One of the most important barriers toward a widespread use of mobile robots in unstructured
and human populated work environments is the ability to plan a safe path. In this paper, we …

A growing number of applications involving autonomous mobile robots will require their
navigation across environments in which spaces are shared with humans. In those …