Design and implementation of a scanning platform for mobile robotics

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It is a great advantage of gaining knowledge about the environment for navigation. The environment should be measured during the employment as exactly as possible, in order to be able to react correctly. Robots are being used for different tasks at contaminated environments, places in danger or completely safe places. For robotic use, scanning capabilities of the environment are limited at the present. Adhering to the limitations of the scanning systems, the environment is scanned at a particular level and charted with appropriate software. In some cases, this scanning capability is not enough to react correctly. Taking these needs into consideration, this thesis successfully demonstrates the design and implementation of a scanning platform for mobile robotics. A scanning platform with a laser rangefinder scanner will be addressed in a compact design with maximum field of view for quickly mapping and high resolution. With this design, the scanning system will be provided by rotating laser rangefinder at z-axis in one dimension. Laser rangefinder will also measure the distance as the second dimension of the system. Also it rotates the laser beam at another axis which is different from the measuring distance axis and rotary z-axis. In this way, the scanning system will have the three-dimensional scanning ability. This design allows the scanning platform, continuous scanning capability at three dimensional.
Mobile robots., Robotics., Robots, Robots, Scanning systems.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614942/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21797
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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G. Aslan, “Design and implementation of a scanning platform for mobile robotics,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.
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