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....to generate a serpentine path made up of these motion macros. If an unexpected obstacle is encountered, MACROBE adds it to its knowledge of the workspace and then plans a new path. Ulrich et al. from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, present an autonomous vacuum cleaner [9]. A Koala robot is used as the platform for the autonomous vacuum cleaner. The robot is equipped with a 2 DOF arm that is used to facilitate the cleaning process. The arm also is used tactically to sense unknown objects and then classify them as legs, walls, corners or unknowns. Through the use of ....

Ulrich, I., Mondada, F. and Nicoud, J.-D., "Autonomous vacuum cleaner," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v19, n3-4, March 1997, p233-245.

....on one to, for example, change batteries. This notion of autonomy is rather widespread, especially in the engineering oriented robotics community, and does make sense where it is used to characterize systems as autonomous which normally are controlled by humans, as in autonomous vacuum cleaner (Ulrich et al. 1997) or autonomous land vehicle (Pomerleau, 1993) This operational notion of autonomy does, however, not capture all of what the term is usually associated with when applied to humans or animals (e.g Boden, 1996) If you look up the term autonomy in the Oxford English Dictionary, for example, you ....

Ulrich, I.; Mondada, F. & Nicoud, J.-D. (1997). Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 19(3-4), 233-245.

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