Development of a navigation system with kinect in a controlled environment for a mobile robot

Abstract

This paper presents the first phase in the development of an assistance and service robot, which consists in the development of a navigation system based on a Kinect for a mobile robot. The results show that it is possible for the robot to displace in a controlled environment, by creating a path with the help of the algorithm A * and letting it avoid the present obstacles to reach its destination point in the traced route.