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Vol: 51(65) No: 3 / September 2006

Circular Scanning Approach for Robot State Representation
Anca Petrisor
University of Craiova, Faculty of Electromechanical Engineering, Bd. Decebal, nr.107, 200440 Craiova, Romania, phone: +40-251-435255, e-mail: apetrisor@em.ucv.ro
Sonia Degeratu
University of Craiova, Faculty of Engineering and Management of Technological Systems,
Florin Ravigan
University of Craiova, Faculty of Electromechanical Engineering, Bd. Decebal, nr.107, 200440 Craiova, Romania
Daniela Coman
Faculty of Engineering and Management of Technological Systems, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Romania
Dumitru Cazacu
University of Pitesti, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer Science, Targul din vale, 110040, Pitesti, Romania


Keywords: mobile robot, local and recent space, control algorithms.

Abstract
This paper presents a method to plan the robot evolution trajectory among obstacles, based on circular scanning. It is taken to consideration the mathematical model of the mobile robot in absolute coordinates, incorporated in the local and recent geometry determined by the evolution in an environment. The uncertainty is modeled considering the fuzzy description of the mobile robot evolution. It is also considered an evolution scene where there are a lot of objects represented by cells area of objects. Each number is represented by a set of complex number. By a circular scanning of the evolution environment it is obtained the signature in local and recent geometry. Based on this signature it follows to establish the evolution trajectory. A package of programs in MATLAB environment is used to obtain the signature that gives the robot position in local and recent geometry.

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