Abstract
For autonomous mobile robots, a design policy is widely accepted such that we should use as many sensors and powerful recognition hardware as possible to realize reliable robot operation. However, if we aim at using the developed technology for commercial products, another design policy is favorable such that minimum sensors and recognition hardware, but still enough for reliable operation, are used. We named the robot designed under this design policy Minimal Autonomous Mover (MAM), and built a MAM to participate a competition for autonomous mobile robots, named Tsukuba Challenge. In the competition, the robot successfully reached the goal and fulfilled the designated mission. We report on this robot in this paper.
