1. Introduction

Abstract

This book presents the results obtained in the framework of several projects both at a national and international level in the areas of intelligent mobile robotics navigation, fuzzy control and stability analysis.

Autonomous mobile robot navigation in uncertain and dynamic environments demands adaptation and perception capabilities. Reactive control strategies imply a strong dependency on sensed information about the robot’s environment. Thus, imprecision and uncertainties in perception from sensors have to be considered. Several researchers have dealt with these capabilities. However, in many cases, the very maneuverable, usually small, mobile robots make it possible to apply reactive control strategies which are not suitable with autonomous vehicles required to perform many productive tasks. Thus, the nonholonomic and dynamic constraints on these vehicles cannot be neglected.