An Improved Method for Mobile Robot Localization Based on Passive RFID System

Abstract:

RFID technology has been widely used in mobile robot positioning system for its unique advantages. RFID tags store their unique positions which are placed on the ceiling or the floor. The mobile robot carries a RFID reader which reads the RFID tags to position itself. In this paper, a new method for mobile robot localization is proposed, and the equations to calculate the position of the mobile robot are given. Finally, the experiment results show that compared to conventional positioning method, the proposed method can effectively improve the positioning accuracy of the mobile robot.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 190-191)
• Pages: 651-655
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.190-191.651
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Qing Yang, Hong Yi Wang, Jian Cheng Li, Rong Jun Shen
• Keywords: Localization, Mobile Robot, Passive RFID

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