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Obstacle Avoidance by a Mobile Platform Using an Ultrasound Sensor

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Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017)

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The problems of obstacle avoidance occur in many areas for autonomous vehicles. In automotive field, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems modules equipped with sensor fusion are used to resolve these problems. In the case of small mobile platforms, electronic sensors such as ultrasound, gyroscopes, magnetometers and encoders are commonly used. The data obtained from these sensors is measured and processed, which permits the development of automatic obstacle avoidance functions for mobile platforms. The information from these sensors is sufficient to detect obstacles, determine the distance to obstacles and prepare actions to avoid the obstacles. This paper presents the results of research on two obstacle avoidance algorithms that were prepared for small mobile platforms that take advantage of an ultrasonic sensor. The presented solutions are based on calculating the weights of the possible directions for obstacle avoidance and the geometric analysis of an obstacle.

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This work was supported by the European Union through the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP AutoUniMo project “Automotive Production Engineering Unified Perspective based on Data Mining Methods and Virtual Factory Model” (Grant Agreement No: 612207) and research work financed from funds for science for years: 2016–2017 allocated to an international co-financed project.

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    Adam Ziebinski, Rafal Cupek & Marek Nalepa

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Ziebinski, A., Cupek, R., Nalepa, M. (2017). Obstacle Avoidance by a Mobile Platform Using an Ultrasound Sensor. In: Nguyen, N., Papadopoulos, G., Jędrzejowicz, P., Trawiński, B., Vossen, G. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10449. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67077-5_23

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