Currently, autonomous robotics is one of the most interesting and researched areas of
technology. At the beginning, robots only worked in the industrial sector but, gradually, they …

Nowadays, mobile robotics is one of the most important fields of robotics. Due to the popularity
of mobile robots, finding a feasible path that allows a robot to move from a starting point to …

Mobile robots must calculate the appropriate navigation path before starting to move to its
destination. This calculation is known as the Path Planning (PP) problem. The PP problem is …

In recent years, commercial and research interest in service robots working in everyday
environments has grown. These devices are expected to move autonomously in crowded …

During the last decade, sampling based methods for motion and path planning have gained
more interest. Specifically, in the field of robotics, approaches based on the Rapidly-…

Currently, autonomous robotics is one of the most interesting and researched areas of
technology. At the beginning, robots only worked in the industrial sector but, gradually, they …

Social robots, designed to interact and assist people in social daily life scenarios, require
adequate path planning algorithms to navigate autonomously through these environments. …

RANSAC (RAndom SAmple Consensus) is an iterative method for estimating the parameters
of a certain mathematical model from a set of data which may contain a large number of …

Service robotics involves the design of robots that work in a dynamic and very open
environment, usually shared with people. In this scenario, it is very difficult for decision-making …

Virtual assistants such as Cortana or Google Assistant are becoming familiar devices in
everyday environments, where they are used to control real devices through natural language. …