Ognyan Borisov Manolov

European Polytechnical University | EPU · Applied Computer Science

The design and investigations of autonomous blimp-robot delivery system is considered. Advanced sensors for a flight critical information of environment conditions and last-minute updates feed the onboard-computerized guidance system to respond and control a set of actuators for maneuvering the blimp-robot. A fuzzy control to guide the system to th...

A particular challenge in robotics is the development of autonomous mobile robots working in a cooperative way. In this paper, a robot system is introduced that facilitates the development and analysis of cooperative behavior strategies for real minirobots. The general goal is the development of a mine detection scheme for a team of robots with the...

The coordination of intelligent behavior among the swarm of autonomous agents and the contrivance of interrelations between the collections are the sine qua non of the multiagent systems (MAS). The metamorphic robotic systems are a new and rather perspective sphere of robotics because of the different and useful applications. These self-reconfiguri...

In this paper, a modified method for occupancy grid map building by a moving mobile robot, equipped with a scanning ultrasonic range finder, is proposed. The map building process consists of twophases - gleaning of information from environment and sonar data processing. For sonar data processing the proposed modified method combines the statistical...

A particular challenge in robotics is the development of autonomous mobile robots working in a cooperative way. In this paper, a robot system is introduced being able to develop and analyze cooperative behavior strategies for real minirobots. The general goal is the development of a mine detection scheme for a team of robots with the subtasks posit...

A simple and reliable technique for the estimation of the relative position and heading of two cooperating vehicles is developed. The proposed method determines both the positions and orientations of the vehicles with comparable accuracy to the landmark approach. A remote Web interface for long-distance-control facilitates in real time natural and...

A simple and reliable technique for the estimation of the relative position and heading of two cooperating mobile robots is developed. Each robot is equipped with a radio modem, a beacon, and a camera mounted on a pan-tilt unit. One of the robots has an additional rotating range finder, replaced on the camera's pan-tilt unit. The method developed d...

Information of environment has substantial importance for mobile robot navigation. Sensors are important sources of information of the global environmental conditions. Ultrasonic sensors are known as robust and cheap distance sensors suitable for this application. In this paper, a mobile microrobot using an ultrasonic range finder for local map bui...

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Mobile robots often find themselves in a situation where they must find a trajectory to another position in their environment, subject to constraints posed by obstacles and the capabilities of the robot itself. This is the problem of planning a path through a continuous domain, for which several approaches have been developed. A method for autonomo...

It is absolutely clear that state-of-the-art robots cannot undertake the whole procedure of terrorist bombs neutralization, unexploded ordnances clean up and minefield demining in many environmental situations, such as urban areas, but the main force toward building of a robotic system in these dangerous tasks is to reduce the human presence. The s...

For implementing efficient cooperative behaviour strategies of a group of robots an appropriate communication system is needed. Depending on the robot's task different communication techniques may be used. We have analyzed an ultrasonic detection and communication system, a communication technique that uses infrared transmitters and receivers and a...