Most of us have seen the iRobot Roomba vacum cleaner robot. Professor Esposito wrote a Matlab Toolbox for the Roomba that allows you to control a Roomba from your PC.
The ES451 Mobile Robotics class used this along with a pretty sophisticated scanning laser rangefinders to program the robots to track along within 2 feet of the wall (the tape lines on the ground are just for reference the robot cannot see them) and when it finds an open door it is able to drive through it.
Mids Warren Leonne
These are the same sensors that have been used succesffully in the DARPA Urban Challenge
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