uRON v1.5: A device-independent and reconfigurable robot navigation library

Sunglok Choi, Jae Yeong Lee, Wonpil Yu, Jae Il Cho

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Abstract

Many laboratories and companies are developing a mobile robot with various sensors and actuators. They implement navigation techniques usually tailored to their own robot. In this paper, we introduce a novel robot navigation library, Universal Robot Navigation (uRON). uRON is designed to be portable and independent from robot hardware and operating systems. Users can apply uRON to their robots with small amounts of codes. Moreover, uRON provides reusable navigation components and reconfigurable navigation framework. It contains the navigation components such as localization, path planning, path following, and obstacle avoidance. Users can create their own component using the existing ones. uRON also includes the navigation framework which assembles each component and wraps them as high-level functions. Users can achieve their robot service easily and quickly with this framework. We applied uRON to three service robots in Tomorrow City, Incheon, South Korea. Three robots had different hardwares and performed different services. uRON enables three robots movable and satisfies complex service requirements with less than 500 lines of codes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, ARSO 2010 - Conference Proceedings
Pages170-175
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, ARSO 2010 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 26 Oct 201028 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO
ISSN (Print)2162-7568
ISSN (Electronic)2162-7576

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, ARSO 2010
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period26/10/1028/10/10

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