TY - GEN
T1 - Improving position estimation accuracy of mobile robot by using UHF passive RFID tags
AU - Park, Sangdo
AU - Kim, Taeho
AU - Lee, Hongchul
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper proposes a practical and improved position estimation method for real-industry application in localizing a mobile robot that is designed to move along a pre-defined path. The proposed method replaces the use of proximity sensors with much more economical UHF passive RFID tags to perform localization tasks. Considering that there is already a wide dissemination of RFID tags in various industries, the proposed method allows efficient and effective estimation of the position of a target mobile robot by using the already-present matrix of RFID tags as a reference point for localization. Particularly, the proposed method makes use of two readers with identical emission configurations attached to a mobile robot to identify a reference RFID tag. By utilizing the RSSI obtained by the readers from the reference RFID tag, the precise position of the moving robot can be obtained. The experiments prove the effectiveness achieved by the proposed method in improving the accuracy of robot position estimation.
AB - This paper proposes a practical and improved position estimation method for real-industry application in localizing a mobile robot that is designed to move along a pre-defined path. The proposed method replaces the use of proximity sensors with much more economical UHF passive RFID tags to perform localization tasks. Considering that there is already a wide dissemination of RFID tags in various industries, the proposed method allows efficient and effective estimation of the position of a target mobile robot by using the already-present matrix of RFID tags as a reference point for localization. Particularly, the proposed method makes use of two readers with identical emission configurations attached to a mobile robot to identify a reference RFID tag. By utilizing the RSSI obtained by the readers from the reference RFID tag, the precise position of the moving robot can be obtained. The experiments prove the effectiveness achieved by the proposed method in improving the accuracy of robot position estimation.
KW - Indoor positioning
KW - Localization
KW - Mobile robots
KW - RFID tags
KW - UHF antennas
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24082-9_66
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24082-9_66
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054077945
SN - 9783642240812
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 538
EP - 549
BT - Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology - 5th International Conference, ICHIT 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2011
Y2 - 22 September 2011 through 24 September 2011
ER -