Introduction to Mobile Robot
RKS 301 (Mobile Robot)
Static/Fixed Robotics & Mobile Robotics
(Manipulators)
A mobile robot is an automatic machine able to move in the
surrounding environment, either autonomously or teleoperated by
humans.
Static/Fixed Robotics & Mobile Robotics
(Manipulators)
Manipulators
Mobile Robots
● Operate in a constrained workspace
● Can operate in unconstrained environments
● Have absolute measurements of position
● Need external sensing to determine position
● May or may not need to perceive the
● Need external sensing to avoid obstacles
world around them.
Industrial Robotics
• Since the 70s, the first industrial robots start appearing
• Used to replace humans in dangerous or simple and
repetitive tasks
• Such robots were designed to perform on site tasks
• Workplaces began to be shaped according to the needs of
robots control (structured environments)
Are They mobile robots?
Early of Mobile Robots (1940’s)
Created by NAZI in the late 1940
and mass produced between 1942
and 1944 about 7500 of this
remote cable controlled mobile Teletanks were a series of wireless
bases could carry up to 60kgs of remotely controlled unmanned
high explosives. tanks produced in the Soviet Union
in the 1930s and early 1940s so as
to reduce combat risk to soldiers
Mobile Robot Characteristics
Mobile robotics cover robots that roll, walk, fly or swim.
Mobile robots need to answer three fundamental
questions
● Where am I
● Where am I going
● How do I get there
To answer these questions the robot must first
● Make measurements
● Model the environment
● Localize it self
● Plan a path to its goal
Mobile Robot Control scheme
Robotic Locomotion Types
Manipulator Flying / Aerial Robot
Mobile Robot Walking Robot
(Static) Rolling Robot
Marine Robot
Components of a Mobile Robots
A mobile robot is a combination of various physical (hardware) and computational (software) components.
In terms of hardware components, a mobile robot can be considered as a collection of subsystems for:
Locomotion – how the robot moves through its environment
Sensing – how the robot measures properties of itself and its environment
Reasoning – how the robot maps the measurements into actions
Communication – how the robot communicates with an outside operator