TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the path-planning problem of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) in a predefined, structured environment.Design/methodology/approach In this investigation, the environment chosen was the roadmap of the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, obtained from Google maps as reference. An UGV is developed and programmed so as to move autonomously from an indicated source location to the defined destination in the given map following the most optimal path.Findings An algorithm based on linear search is implemented to the autonomous robot to generate shortest paths in the environment. The developed algorithm is verified with the simulations as well as in experimental environments.Originality/value Unlike the past methodologies, the current investigation deals with the global path-planning strategy as the line following mechanism. Moreover, the proposed technique has been implemented in a real-time environment.
VL  - 14
IS  - 4
SN  - 1708-5284
DO  - 10.1108/WJE-07-2016-0029
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/WJE-07-2016-0029
AU  - Deepak B.B.V.L.
AU  - Bahubalendruni M.V.A. Raju
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Development of a path follower in real-time environment
T2  - World Journal of Engineering
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 297
EP  - 306
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -