Abstract-A feature detection system has been developed for real-time identification of lines, circles and legs from laser data. A new method suitable for arc/circle detection is proposed: the Internal Angle Variance (IAV). Lines are detected using a recursive line fitting method. The people leg detection is based on geometrical constrains. The system was implemented as a fiducial driver in Player, a mobile robot server. Real results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in indoor environment with moving objects.

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-In this paper a reactive local navigation system is presented, for an autonomous non-holonomic mobile robot navigating in dynamic environments. The reactive navigation system integrates an obstacle detection method [4] and a new reactive collision avoidance method. The sensory perception is based in a laser range finder (LRF) system. Simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed local navigation system in unknown environments with multiple moving objects. The comparison of results are shown, between two different approaches, a Velocity Obstacle (VO) approach and our own, based in the Dynamic Window (DW) concept.