Navi-Guider: An Intuitive Guiding System for the Mobile Robot

Abstract

The Navi-Guider, which is a new tool to make it easy to handle mobile robots, is presented in this paper. Since a robot used in home should be operated easily, the proposed robot control scheme used for the Navi-Guider has to be designed to support the user-interface. The Navi-Guider that is easily mounted in a mobile robot could detect a length and a direction of the tether pulled out by a user. Those detected factors are utilized in the Navi-Guider for the robot guidance and control.