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A sensor-based fuzzy algorithm is proposed to navigate a mobile robot in a 2-dimensional unknown environment filled with stationary polygonal obstacles. When the robot is at the starting point, vertices of the obstacles that are visible from the robot are scanned by the sensors and the one with the highest priority is chosen. Here, priority is an output fuzzy variable whose value is determined by fuzzy rules. The robot is then navigated from the starting point to the chosen vertex along the line segment connecting these two points. Taking the chosen vertex as the new starting point, the next navigation decision is made. The navigation process will be repeated until the goal point is reached.
In implementation of fuzzy rules, the ranges of fuzzy variables are parameters to be determined. In order to evaluate the effect of different range parameters on the navigation algorithm, the total traveling distance of the robot is defined as the performance index first. Then a learning mechanism, which is similar to the ‘simulated annealing’ method in the neural network theory, is presented to find the optimal range parameters which minimize the performance index. Several simulation examples are included for illustration.
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Wu, CJ. A learning fuzzy algorithm for motion planning of mobile robots. J Intell Robot Syst 11, 209–221 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01254012
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