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Design and Implementation of a Reactive Navigation System for a Smart Robot Using Udoo Quad

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This chapter describes a process of design and implementation of a reactive navigation system for a smart mobile robot. Equipped with a webcam and distance sensors, the autonomous robot will explore an arena to locate a number of sites in a limited time all while avoiding the arena boundary and any obstacles it might encounter. A fuzzy behavior-based control scheme with adaptive membership functions has been taken as a proposed reactive navigation system. The tests of the proposed method were performed in a real robot using a UDOO Quad board, which is a single-board computer equipped with two CPU, and experiments demonstrated that this embedded system was able to successfully complete the autonomous navigation task in a real arena.

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Notes

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    UDOO website: http://www.udoo.org/

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    OpenCV website: http://opencv.org

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    Scikit-fuzzy website: http://pythonhosted.org/scikit-fuzzy/overview.html

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    Arduino IDE for UDOO: http://udoo.org/download/files/arduino-1.5.4-for__UDOO.tar.gz

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  1. Control and Energy Management laboratory (CEM), Digital Research Center of Sfax, Technopole of Sfax, Sakiet Ezzit, Tunisia

    Mohamed Njah & Ridha El-Hamdi

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  1. Sfax Engineering School, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Nabil Derbel

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Sultan Quaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Jawhar Ghommam

  3. University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Quanmin Zhu

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Njah, M., El-Hamdi, R. (2019). Design and Implementation of a Reactive Navigation System for a Smart Robot Using Udoo Quad. In: Derbel, N., Ghommam, J., Zhu, Q. (eds) New Developments and Advances in Robot Control. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 175. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2212-9_13

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