Free Navigation of Cooperating Robots

Internship project at HEIG-VD


This project involved use of virtual barriers and forbidden regions for co-operating robot agents that are widely being used in warehouse management, as delivery agents in offices and amusement parks. All of these cases have a common characteristic that the robot operates in a fixed perimeter and a part of the environment always remains constant. We experiment with the use of virtual barriers and forbidden regions with 2D LiDAR for navigation of mobile robots to address the method of human-like rule based navigation in known environments. We perform our experiments on the RH-Y robot and Piaget development and control environment.