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Autonomous Locomotion of Humanoid Robots in Presence of Mobile and Immobile Obstacles

Trajectory Prediction, Path Planning, Control and Simulation

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 243))

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The article is addressed to the control synthesis of an intelligent autonomous locomotion (artificial gait) of biped robots operating in unknown and unstructured dynamic environments, based on perception, spatial reasoning, and learning the skill of human locomotion. Focusing the research activities to the embodied cognition and computational intelligence, this paper contributes to the extension of the intelligent robot behavior through building advanced algorithms for dynamic environment understanding, simultaneous localization, trajectory prediction, path planning, obstacle avoidance, collision avoidance and scenario-driven behavior. The article includes some characteristic simulation results to demonstrate the efficiency of the developed control algorithms and verify the obtained results.

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Mester, G., Rodić, A. (2009). Autonomous Locomotion of Humanoid Robots in Presence of Mobile and Immobile Obstacles. In: Rudas, I.J., Fodor, J., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Towards Intelligent Engineering and Information Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03737-5_20

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