Artificial Techniques Based on Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Combination Approach for Avoiding Dynamic Obstacles

Abstract

The autonomous mobile robot must be capable of avoiding static and dynamic obstacles in the environment and navigating towards the target without any human effort. A valid low-cost path from start to goal is obtained by A* algorithm. Neural network used for Zone classification. The relative values between mobile robot and obstacle are used for classification which are distance, velocity, and angle. Zone1 is very dangerous while zone 5 is not dangerous. If the neural network classifies the obstacle as a dangerous obstacle and activates the controller. The fuzzy logic makes a decision as a reaction of mobile robot to prevent collision. There are three inputs to the fuzzy logic (relative velocity, relative distance, and relative angle) between mobile robot and obstacle. The outputs of fuzzy logic are velocity and steering angle of mobile robot. Static obstacles have been added to the environment in addition to dynamic obstacles to make the environment more complex. Three dangerous dynamic obstacles to the mobile robot are tested. While mobile robot is avoiding one obstacle, another obstacle enters critical zone and becomes dangerous to mobile robot. The mobile robot avoids the second obstacle while it is avoiding the first obstacle. Then the velocities of mobile robot and obstacles have been increased to prove that the proposed system can handle cases with faster velocities. The simulation results for the tested cases shows the capability of the proposed method for avoiding static and dynamic obstacles in fully known environment.