TY - CHAP AU - Fairul Azni Jafar AU - Yuki Tateno AU - Toshitaka Tabata AU - Kazutaka Yokota AU - Yasunori Suzuki ED - Alejandra Barrera Y1 - 2011-07-05 PY - 2011 T1 - Vision-only Motion Controller for Omni-directional Mobile Robot Navigation N2 - Robot navigation includes different interrelated activities such as perception - obtaining and interpreting sensory information; exploration - the strategy that guides the robot to select the next direction to go; mapping - the construction of a spatial representation by using the sensory information perceived; localization - the strategy to estimate the robot position within the spatial map; path planning - the strategy to find a path towards a goal location being optimal or not; and path execution, where motor actions are determined and adapted to environmental changes. This book integrates results from the research work of authors all over the world, addressing the abovementioned activities and analyzing the critical implications of dealing with dynamic environments. Different solutions providing adaptive navigation are taken from nature inspiration, and diverse applications are described in the context of an important field of study: social robotics. BT - Advances in Robot Navigation SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17013 DO - 10.5772/17013 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -