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The Centre of Research Excellence for Advanced Cooperative Systems (ACROSS) is an interdepartmental research centre at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. The centre performs research in cooperative systems related to robotics, networked embedded systems and renewable energy systems. Its establishment and operation is funded by the European FP-7 Capacities "Research Potential" program [285939, FP7-REGPOT-2011-1].


Published: 2013-05-22 at 23:39
Colloquium "Efficient navigation...

The Centre of Research Excellence for Advanced Cooperative Systems (ACROSS) invites you to the colloquium

"Efficient navigation for any-shape holonomic mobile robots"

held by dr. sc. Marija Đakulović

Colloquium details
Title Efficient navigation for any-shape holonomic mobile robots
Speaker dr. sc. Marija Đakulović
Date 24. 5. 2013. 14:15 - 15:15
Location Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Gray Hall

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Abstract:

Nowadays mobile robots get larger and applicable for industry, with shape no longer circular or convex. Furthermore, overhanging payloads increase the complexity of the resulting footprint. This talk presents a navigation strategy for an holonomic mobile robot with any-shape footprint, developed at Uni Freiburg. Many approaches in robotics approximate the robot with a circle in order to provide an efficient solution by searching in 2D space of positions. This assumption potentially limits the mobility of non-circular robots in narrow passages. Performing a search on a large 3D configuration space is computationally expensive and not suitable for online applications in dynamic environments, where new plans need to be recalculated within a short period of time. We present a compact representation of the discretized free space to compute fast-to-update plans. In particular, we create a graph of valid orientation intervals on top of non-occupied locations on a grid map. Using this representation we furthermore introduce a continuous motion generation approach that computes smooth motions in highly reactive manner and is proven to be asymptotically stable. We show efficiency of our approach both by simulations and experiments using a real holonomic L-shaped robot omniRob by KUKA.
 
 
CV:

Marija Đakulović (born Seder) is a postdoctoral researcher and a senior assistant at UNIZG-FER. She received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the FER Zagreb in 2004. In 2010 she received a PhD degree at UNIZG-FER. Period from September 2012 to April 2013 she spent at the Autonomous System Laboratory, University of Freiburg, Germany, as a visiting researcher, working on navigation for rectangular-shape holonomic mobile robot omniRob by KUKA. Her main research interests are mobile robotics, especially path planning, motion planning, obstacle avoidance and environment exploration.

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ACROSS project has received research funding from the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 285939 FP7-REGPOT-2011-1).


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