The project PO-ROBOT addresses the area of mobile robotics and aims to develop and implement in a commercially available mobile robot the main navigation and mission management functions aiming to demonstrate that it might be able to safely operate in indoors structured or semi-structured environments. A communication link with a central station and the ability to cope with non-static environments prepare the mobile platform to work in a multi-vehicle scenario.

The vehicle developed has a modular structure and is be able to carry, on a point to point delivery basis, surveillance and material handling tasks in environments such as manufacturing facilities, hospitals, office type buildings and hostile environments for human operators. It is assumed that a model of the environment is given, including objects of various shapes and sizes and that the vehicle normal operation copes with changes in the environment, namely with unexpected obstacles or with objects removed or simply moved to another place. Although, the project aimed at providing platform independent developments, a particular mobile platform was used for the project developments.