Autonomous Mobile Robots in Unknown Outdoor Environments [Paperback]

Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors. This book provides a new framework and the related algorithms for designing autonomous mobile robotic systems in such unknown outdoor environments.

Introduction. Mechanism design of outdoor mobile robot. Motion planning of compliant framed wheel robot. Robust control of compliant framed wheel robot. Terrain inclination based localization and mapping of wheel robot at outdoors. Cloud based localization architecture of outdoor robot in large scale environment. Terrain surface identification and localization for outdoor robot.

Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors. This book provides a new framework and the related algorithms for designing autonomous mobile robotic systems in such unknown outdoor environments.<

Xiaorui Zhu received the B.S. and the M.S. degree in mechatronics engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, in 1998 and 2000 respectively, and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 2006. She is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China since 2007. Her current research interests include localization and mapping of mobile robot, nonlinear control of UAV, design of novel mobile robotic systems.

Youngshik Kim received the B.S. degree from Inha University, Korea in 1996, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Utah, USA, in 2003 and 2008, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. He l³î