2017 年 83 巻 850 号 p. 16-00317
In this study, we discuss a problem to collect observation data with one mobile robot in extensive investigation field. When the measurement of observation data is carried out by the mobile robot, the setting of running-path and navigation are important for appropriate measurement. Usually reciprocating straight paths at even interval are employed to collect data with spatially uniform density. However it is possible that some area between the straight paths requires detailed measurement. The method proposed in this paper makes it possible that in ordinary situation the robot follows the straight path, in the proximity of the area with need of observation it leaves the straight path toward the area, after that returns to the preceding straight path. Recently the path-generating regulator (PGR) has been applied to a tracking problem along a straight passage for car-like robots. The PGR is a control method for a vehicle so as to orient its heading toward a tangent to one of the curves belonging to a family of path functions. In this paper, we append a property to the PGR tracking the straight passage to modify the target heading angle in accordance with necessity of observation and to realize the motion toward the area with need of observation. To confirm the efficiency of the proposed method, two types of simulations are performed. The first simulation shows how a level of necessity of observation and a range to the area changes the locus of the mobile robot. In the second simulation, the mobile robot is satisfactorily guided by the level of necessity of observation obtained from actual measured data in a survey site.
