Vision and computational intelligence applied to autonomous navigation of robots

Abstract

The necessity of improving the products quality and to optimize the processing time regarding the manufacturing of them, led to the growing of researches related to the automation and robotics. In this work we describe an autonomous navigation system using Lego Mindstorms kit. The proposed method of navigation is based on computational vision that describes the environment allowing one robot to make decisions. This robot, once having information about its localization, target and the obstacles positions, must decide which path to choose in order to get the target. Implementation, applied techniques details and results, as well, are discussed in this work.