Implementation of a Driver Level with Odometry for the LAURON III Hexapod Robot

A vision-based robot navigation system was designed as a general platform able to be used with wheeled and legged robots. We adapted our former hexapod robot Lauron III controller with a new driver level that provides all necessary behaviours, such as odometry, to interface it with the general navigation system, thus showing the independence of the navigation system from the specific kind of robot that actually performs the navigation task.