Autonomous Mobile Robots with On-Board Vision and Local Intelligence

Abstract

We designed a family of completely autonomous mobile robots with local intelligence. We developed our own controllers with a variety of digital/analo g I/O facilities and our own operating system RoBIOS, which allows maximum flexibility. Our robots have a number of on-board sensors, including vision, and do not rely on global sensor systems. The on-board computing power is sufficient to analyse several color images per second. This enables our robots to perform several different tasks such as navigation, map generation, and intelligent group behavior.