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The response time of an autonomous mobile robot is presented as an internal performance index that characterizes a robot regardless of a particular task. The response time is defined as the time between the occurrence of an event, its detection by a robot, its recognition, the decision making, and the response. For fully autonomous robots and robots that are controlled by and interact with a human, analytical expressions for estimating the response time are presented. An analysis of the robotreconfiguration time when overcoming obstacles is presented. The analytical expressions are supported by numerical examples.
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Original Russian Text © A. Baums, A. Gordyushin, 2013, published in Avtomatika i Vychislitel’naya Tekhnika, 2013, No. 6, pp. 73–82.
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Baums, A., Gordyushin, A. Response time of a mobile robot. Aut. Control Comp. Sci. 47, 352–358 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411613060023
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