Title: Autonomous navigation of mobile robot using shallow and deep neural network

Authors: Rituvika Narula; Urfi Khan; Nathi Ram Chauhan

Addresses: Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, Delhi, India ' Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, Delhi, India ' Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, Delhi, India

Abstract: Neural network provides an efficient solution for the manoeuvrability problems of autonomous mobile robots. Freire et al. (2009) studied the autonomous navigation of SCITOS-G5 (mobile robot) by training four types of neural networks to perform a classification task. The multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network gave the best performance in comparison to others (mixture of experts, Elman and logistic perceptron). In this paper, a different model of MLP network has been trained using the same training set whose performance is found to be better than that obtained by Freire, in terms of faster computations and a higher success rate. Also, since deep learning started gaining popularity in terms of its association with the neural network therefore, a recurrent neural network model is developed whose performance is compared to a simple MLP network. The results show that it gives superior performance, in comparison to the developed MLP network, using fewer training samples.

Keywords: artificial neural network; ANN; multi-layer propagation network; multi-layer perceptron; MLP; deep neural network; recurrent neural network; RNN; mobile robot; autonomous navigation; neural network model; regression; mean square error; confusion matrix; hidden layer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMA.2020.108796

International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, 2020 Vol.7 No.2, pp.64 - 71

Accepted: 23 Jan 2020
Published online: 03 Aug 2020 *

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