Zehua Wang MSc Dissertation 2015/16

Mobile Robot Localisation

Supervised by R.Gaizauskas

Abstract

To navigate reliably in given environments, a mobile robot needs to know where it is. Thus, mobile robot localisation  is a fundamental problem in mobile robot navigation. The aim of project is to design and implement an approach to achieve mobile robot localisation  in the simulated environment. 

To achieve this goal, three main stages were established: achieving sensor reading, calculating the moving distance, estimating the initial position of robot. Python is the main programming language used to implement this project. Webots  is chosen as the simulator to simulate environment. 

Key words: mobile robot localisation ,  e-puck, webots , python