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GPS Based Navigation of an Autonomous Mobile Vehicle

Journal Solid State Phenomena (Volumes 147 - 149)
Volume Mechatronic Systems and Materials III
Edited by Zdzislaw Gosiewski and Zbigniew Kulesza
Pages 55-60
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.147-149.55
Online since January, 2009
Authors Harald Loose, Marcin Zasepa, Przemyslaw Pierzchala, Robert Ritter
Keywords Autonomous Navigation, GPS, Mobile Robots, Robotics
Abstract This paper presents an autonomous mobile robot built on a hardware platform of a remote controlled outdoor vehicle. The components are discussed, including platform, sensors, controller and GPS hardware. A new introduced middleware allowing other devices to control the robot on a more abstract level is presented. Using GPS receiver the vehicle is capable to navigate to given targets. The architecture of the platform and three different software approaches of achieving autonomy are described and evaluated.
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