For a robot, an animal, and even for man, to be able to use an internal representation of the
spatial layout of its environment to position itself is a very complex task, which raises …

The field of autonomous mobile robots has undergone dramatic advancements over the past
decades. Despite achieving important milestones, several challenges are yet to be …

The evolution of contemporary mobile robotics has given thrust to a series of additional
conjunct technologies. Of such is the semantic mapping, which provides an abstraction of …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

In robotic applications of visual simultaneous localization and mapping techniques, loop-
closure detection and global localization are two issues that require the capacity to …

Powered wheelchair users often struggle to drive safely and effectively and, in more critical
cases, can only get around when accompanied by an assistant. To address these issues, we …

In this paper, a new approach is developed for solving the problem of mobile robot path
planning in an unknown dynamic environment based on Q-learning. Q-learning algorithms …

Wearable computers can certainly support audio-only presentation of information; a visual
interface need not be present for effective user interaction. A system for wearable audio …

Energy-efficient mapless navigation is crucial for mobile robots as they explore unknown
environments with limited on-board resources. Although the recent deep rein-forcement …

Mobile robots represent a very attractive and multidisciplinary field with a lot of applications
and scientific research possibilities. The development of microcomputers, single board …