A Simulator for Robot Navigation Algorithms

A robot simulator was developed to measure and investigate the performance of a robot navigation system based on the relative position of the robot with respect to random obstacles in any two dimensional environment. The presented simulator focuses on investigating the ability of a fuzzy-neural system for object avoidance. A navigation algorithm is proposed and used to allow random navigation of a robot among obstacles when the robot faces an obstacle in the environment. The main features of this simulator can be used for evaluating the performance of any system that can provide the position of the robot with respect to obstacles in the environment. This allows a robot developer to investigate and analyze the performance of a robot without implementing the physical robot.

Authors:

• Michael A. Folcik
• Bijan Karimi

Keywords:

• Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networksin Robotics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Embedded Systems
• MobileRobots
• Robot Navigation
• Robotics.

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