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Intelligent detection of bumps in a mobile robot

  • Fujun He*
  • , Zhijiang Du
  • , Lining Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • College of Mechanical Science and Engineering
  • Daqing Petroleum Institute
  • Robotics Institute
  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A mobile robot is easy to be collided in a dynamic environment, and will also be knocked by people as a means of communication to send a command, so it is necessary for the robot to detect the bump information correctly and make a reasonable response. A 2-D (two-dimensional) accelerometer is fixed in a differential drive wheeled mobile robot to feel the occurrence of bump by picking up vibration signals in this paper. The bump angle and force can be evaluated by analysis of the serial vibration force. Since the running of robot and the slope on ground will also caused acceleration signals a way to recognize bump is also discussed. Because of the bumping angle judged by this method is not very accurate, a reasonable responding policy is also provided. The experiments show that the robot can effectively detect bump in a reasonable error range.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages136-141
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1424405718, 9781424405718
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2007 - Kunming, China
Duration: 17 Dec 200620 Dec 2006

Publication series

Name2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2006

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityKunming
Period17/12/0620/12/06

Keywords

  • Accelerometer
  • Bump detection
  • Mobile robot
  • Signal processing

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