Mobile Robots Navigation

Mobile robots navigation includes different interrelated activities: (i) perception, as obtaining and

interpreting sensory information; (ii) exploration, as the strategy that guides the robot to select the

next direction to go; (iii) mapping, involving the construction of a spatial representation by using

the sensory information perceived; (iv) localization, as the strategy to estimate the robot position

within the spatial map; (v) path planning, as the strategy to find a path towards a goal location

being optimal or not; and (vi) path execution, where motor actions are determined and adapted to

environmental changes.

The book addresses those activities by integrating results from the research work of several authors

all over the world. Research cases are documented in 32 chapters organized within 7 categories next

described.