Mobile robots have evolved from indoor experimental use to outdoor deployment. This book describes the design and implementation of one such robot - a fully functioning mobile robot intended for autonomous outdoor robot navigation with the ability to autonomously cross roads at pedestrian crossings. It describes how a mixture of existing and new technologies and solutions can be combined to design such a robot. The design is validated by real world experiments where experiments were performed on a real pedestrian crossing in the presence of vehicles and pedestrians.

Dr. Aneesh N. Chand is a postdoctoral research fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan. Formerly, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Mechatronic Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. He obtained a Ph.D in Robotics from the Intelligent Robot Laboratory of University of Tsukuba, Japan.