Application of radio frequency identification devices to support navigation of autonomous mobile robots

Kubitz, O.; Berger, M.O.; Perlick, M.; Dumoulin, R.

doi:10.1109/vetec.1997.596332

Cited by 75 publications

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“…In most cases, tags must be initialized by writing in them some a-priori information, usually about their global position [12], [13], [14], [15]. Our approach does not require the storage or a-priori information in the tags, nor does it rely on any global position information.…”

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confidence: 99%

Navigating by stigmergy: A realization on an RFID floor for minimalistic robots

Johansson

Saffiotti

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Abstract-Stigmergy is a mechanism that allows the coordination of actions within the same agent or across different agents by means of traces left in the environment. We propose a stigmergetic approach to robot navigation in which a robot sets values in a hexagonal grid of RFID tags buried under the floor. This approach only requires minimal resources on the robot. The RFID floor will eventually contain a distance map that can guide the robot to a given goal (or set of goals) without the use of any localization system. The same map can be used or improved by other robots or by the same robot at later times. We define algorithms for building the RFID-floor map and for navigating on this map, we prove the convergence of the map building algorithm, and we show an empirical validation of our results using a small robot in a domestic environment.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating by stigmergy: A realization on an RFID floor for minimalistic robots

Johansson

Saffiotti

2009

2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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“…Our primary goal is to demonstrate the feasibility and practicability of using a superdistributed RFID tag infrastructure for the realization of collaborative activities, which is not considered by traditional map-making systems. In contrast to our approach, RFID tags for positioning have so far only been used in the function of dedicated artificial landmarks on walls or floor spaces, providing auxiliary support to dedicated positioning and navigation systems [9,10,11].…”

Section: Collaborative Sdri Mapping Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Prototypical Implementation of Location-Aware Services Based on Super-Distributed RFID Tags

Bohn

2006

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities for providing fault-tolerant location-aware services. We do so by describing exemplary implementations based on radio frequency identification (RFID) as an enabling technology. Firstly, we present prototypical implementations of the hardware abstraction layer and of selected core middleware services. The latter enable a mobile device to store and retrieve data and position information in physical places in a fault-tolerant manner, and to identify places based on a location abstraction which is robust against failure of individual tags. Secondly, we investigate the feasibility of some higher-level services and applications by developing and evaluating prototypical systems for tracing and tracking, self-positioning, and collaborative map-making.

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“…An RFID system has been used for the artificial landmark to obtain the geographical information for navigation and localization of the mobile robot (Yamano et al, 2004;Kulyukin et al, 2004;Ni et al, 2003;Kubitz et al, 1997;Tsukiyama, 2002;Hahnel et al, 2004;Ruff & Hession, 2001). Using this system, several researchers have developed the application of RFID system to support object recognition and manipulation (Boukraa & Ando, 2002;Mae et al, 2000;Chong et al, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%