Some speed and terrain navigation capabilities of the Pioneer 3-DX research platform from Adept MobileRobots. The Pioneer 3 is capable of easily traversing all of the bumps, gaps, thresholds, ramps and transitions found in indoor office and lab environments.
Shown are: external door threshold, sidewalk gaps and bumps, a carpet and an extension power cord, small indoor threshold, up and down a ramp at normal and slow, constant speeds, and traversing 1.5 and 2 inch open gaps.
This robot is equipped with bumper switch sensor attachments (on front and back near the bottom) which will automatically stop the robot if it accidentally contacts an obstacle.
The robot is controlled by software on an onboard computer (PC, inside the robot) sending velocity commands to the robot's embedded motion controller.
