&lt;title&gt;Global navigation system with RFID tags&lt;/title&gt;

Tsukiyama, Toshifumi

doi:10.1117/12.457450

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“…The behavior-based control architecture is specially designed to be able to integrate several positioning sensors with different accuracies and error categories while enabling the robot to navigate. A new navigation system in man-made environments, such as hallways, was developed in [8], where RFID tags are used as artificial landmarks and the mobile robot is equipped with an on-board laptop computer, an RFID tag sensor and a vision system. The RFID reader is mounted on the robot itself while the tags are pasted at particular locations on walls.…”

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An RFID-Based robot navigation system with a customized RFID tag architecture

Miah

Gueaieb

2007

2007 Internatonal Conference on Microelectronics

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A major component of a mobile robot system is the ability to navigate accurately in unknown environments with little or no human intervention. In this paper, we present a modular and cost-effective navigation technique incorporating signals from RFID tags, an RFID reader, and a fuzzy logic controller (FLC). The RFID tags are placed at 3-dimensional positions in the robot's workspace in such a way that the lines linking their projection points on the ground define "free-ways" along which the robot is desired to navigate. The RFID reader is mounted on the mobile robot to communicate with the RFID tags to determine the robot's position. The FLC is then applied to guide the robot along a pre-defined trajectory in an unknown working environment. For this purpose, we introduce two minor changes to the RFID tag architecture while keeping that of the RFID reader unchanged. A simplistic circuit and a primitive microcontroller are added to the RFID tag to compute the signal's power received by the tag and encode it within the tag ID, respectively. This way, virtually any commercially available RFID reader can be used without the need for any special customization. The performance of the proposed navigation scheme is evaluated through several numerical simulations.

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An RFID-Based robot navigation system with a customized RFID tag architecture

Miah

Gueaieb

2007

2007 Internatonal Conference on Microelectronics

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“…The tags' global positions, environment class, environment position, and further optional data, are pre-stored in the tags' memory. Some navigation systems in man-made environments, such as hallways, were developed in [15], [16], where RFID tags are used as artificial landmarks for a mobile robot that is equipped with an on-board laptop computer, an RFID tag sensor and a vision system. The RFID reader is mounted on the robot itself while the tags are pasted at particular locations on walls.…”

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A Modular Cost-Effective Mobile Robot Navigation System Using RFID Technology

Gueaieb¹,

Miah²

2009

JCM

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Skilled navigation in mobile robotics usually requires solving two problems pertaining to the knowledge of the position of the robot, and to a motion control strategy. When no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem becomes even more challenging, since the robot has to build a map of its surroundings as it moves. These three tasks ought to be solved in conjunction due to their interdependency. The present manuscript proposes a novel mobile robot navigation technique using a customized RFID reader with two receiving antennas mounted on the robot and a number of standard RFID tags attached in the robot’s environment to define its path. In here, we show that using the RF signal from the RFID tags as an analog feedback signals can be a promising strategy to navigate a mobile robot within an unknown or uncertain indoor environment. This method is computationally simpler and more cost-effective than many of its counterparts in the state of the art. It is also modular and easy to implement since it is independent of the robot’s architecture and its workspace. A set of numerical computer simulations are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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“…The tags' global positions, environment class, environment position, and further optional data, are pre-stored in the tags' memory. Some navigation systems in man-made environments, such as hallways, were developed in [14], [15], where RFID tags are used as artificial landmarks for a mobile robot that is equipped with an on-board laptop computer, an RFID tag sensor and a vision system. The RFID reader is mounted on the robot itself while the tags are pasted at particular locations on walls.…”

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Experiments on a novel modular cost-effective RFID-based mobile robot navigation system

Gueaieb

Miah

2007

2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

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Mobile robot navigation using an analog signal strength of a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) device is a promising alternative of different types of robot navigation methods in the state of the art. Skilled navigation in mobile robotics usually requires solving two problems: the knowledge of the position of the robot, and a motion control strategy. Moreover, when no prior knowledge of the environment is available, the problem becomes even more challenging, since the robot has to build a map of its surroundings as it moves. These three problems ought to be solved in conjunction, since they are interdependent. The objective of this manuscript is to introduce an innovative cost-effective mobile robot navigation strategy using the features of a specific analog signal from an RFID system. The proposed navigation method is easily implementable on virtually any indoor robotic system with a low computational complexity. Numerical computer simulations are carried out to illustrate the performance of the proposed scheme.

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An RFID-Based robot navigation system with a customized RFID tag architecture

An RFID-Based robot navigation system with a customized RFID tag architecture

A Modular Cost-Effective Mobile Robot Navigation System Using RFID Technology

Experiments on a novel modular cost-effective RFID-based mobile robot navigation system

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