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Aimy: An autonomous mobile robot navigation in unknown environment with infrared detector system

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Aimy — an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR), capable of moving in an unknown environment filled with obstacles, has been developed. To avoid collision with unexpected obstacles, an Infrared Detector System (IDS) for providing multiple reading data was designed and implemented. A navigation/obstacle avoidance strategy for a mobile robot, which is based on the use of infrared detector data only, is discussed. Experiment results are also presented which exhibit the power of the developed algorithm and Infrared Detector System.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A& T State University, 27411, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Huiming Yu

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, 07030, Hoboken, NJ, USA

    Raashid Malik

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Yu, H., Malik, R. Aimy: An autonomous mobile robot navigation in unknown environment with infrared detector system. J Intell Robot Syst 14, 181–197 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01559611

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