Navigation and Localization
A mobile robot should be able to move and act autonomously in a changing
environment while carrying out various tasks. Existing systems are usually
robots that were specially developed for a specific task. Our research's
aim is to develop, evaluate, optimise and generalise methods, thus enabling
the use of mobile robot systems with the same methods in various different
scenarios. Special emphasis is laid on improving the precision of localization
methods for dynamic environments as well as the improvement of the control
and positioning capabilities of robot systems. Another point of interest is
the analysis of automatic mapping. This work constitutes the basis for carrying
out new service tasks that could not be realised before. For the
evaluation process we have different sensors like
laser measurement systems,
stereo and
omnidirectional vision
systems at our disposal.
