Review of Autonomous Campus and Tour Guiding Robots with Navigation Techniques

ABSTRACT

Autonomous robots are designed to support humans in diverse ways including companionship and assistance, as technology evolves, the burden of physical tasks which were performed by humans in the past are getting reduced. Autonomous guidance and navigation are popular fields that use mobile robots to replace humans. These robots are widely used in space, defence, education, and industry and require navigating safely through different environments. A significant aspect of Autonomous Robot Navigation is an obstacle and pedestrian avoidance. Most of the outdoor guiding robots follow the concept of SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) for moving from the initial point to the goal point. Moreover, image processing plays a vital role in the detection and recognition between humans and objects. The existing methodology comprises implementing autonomous tour guide robots are based in embedded systems which has a high degree of recognition accuracy. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the existing autonomous campus and tour guiding robots. This paper is steered at providing a satellite view of these existing assemblies and the advances made with them.

KEYWORDS:

• SLAM
• navigation
• Robot Operating System (ROS)
• autonomous robot

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Debajyoti Bose

Debajyoti Bose holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering on Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment from the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and Society for Chemical Industry and is an active researcher in the area of Bioenergy. He has 40+ research publications to his credit in well-reputed International journals, with several book chapters and conference publications.

Monika Yadav

Monika Yadav received her post-Graduation degree in Electrical Engineering specialization in power system in 2015 from IIT (Indian School Of Mines), Dhanbad, India; she has more than 6 yrs. of experience from University of petroleum and energy studies, Dehradun. In addition, she is a certified distribution engineer trainer from power sector skill council of India (PSSC) and ministry of human resources and development (MHRD), India.

Devender K. Saini

Devender Kumar Saini works at the Department of Electrical and Electronics, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Roorkee in 2009 and 2013 respectively. He has done his Ph.D. on controller design for uncertain interval systems and their order reduction. Currently, he is working on protection for integration of renewable energy sources with distribution grid.