Simulated Robot Navigates Obstacles but Reveals the Cost of Purely Reactive Control
A simulation study found that a PID-and-reactive navigation scheme kept a mobile robot collision-free but slowed it to 0.17 m/s ...
Tag: autonomous navigation
Simulated Robot Navigates Cluttered Space with Theta* Planning and LIDAR Mapping
A MATLAB simulation combining Theta* planning, potential field avoidance, Pure Pursuit tracking and LIDAR mapping reached the goal in nine ...
Edible capacitive tilt sensor tracks continuous tilt for sustainable soft robotics
Scientists have built the first fully edible tilt sensor that measures continuous tilt angles from 0 to 80 degrees using ...
FA-PPO Method Helps Drones Dodge Obstacles in Cluttered Skies
A new reinforcement learning method called FA-PPO was the only tested algorithm to complete simulated UAV obstacle-avoidance tasks across three ...
New Safety Math Helps Drones Dodge Obstacles Without Losing Sight of Their Target
A new analytical safety boundary method lets camera-guided drones avoid obstacles while keeping their target in view, without manual retuning ...
MIT’s SANDO planner mathematically guarantees collision-free drone flight in unknown environments
MIT researchers have developed SANDO, a trajectory planning system that mathematically guarantees a drone's flight path will remain collision-free even ...
Drone Swarms That Heal Themselves: New Control Strategy Keeps Formations Flying Through Obstacles and Losses
Researchers in China have developed a behavior-based control strategy that lets drone formations contract through tight spaces, follow obstacle walls, ...
Hybrid A* and Dynamic Window Method Steers Robots Past Obstacles
A new hierarchical framework combining an obstacle-aware A* algorithm, B-spline smoothing, and fuzzy-adaptive dynamic window control lifts mobile robot obstacle ...
Microrobots Learn to Navigate Blood Vessels in Under Ten Minutes of Training
Researchers have built a vectorized simulation and reward framework that trains autonomous microrobot navigation policies in under ten minutes, enabling ...
Smart Drones That Outwit GPS Spoofing and Dodge Obstacles in Real Time
Researchers have developed a UAV navigation framework that detects GPS spoofing with sparse autoencoders, fuses multi-sensor data for obstacle avoidance, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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