SPATIAL AND REACTIVE NAVIGATION FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN AN UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENT

This thesis report describes the process of developing an autonomous non-holonomic robot that can navigate and find targets in unknown environments. The goal was to create a system for a robot that was good enough to reach an honorable position in the SICK Robot Day competition 2009. The challenge of the competition was to build a autonomous vehicle that as fast as possible, found and marked nu…