Title : 
Autonomous Configuration Method for Real-Time Location Systems
         
        
            Author : 
Edelhäußer, Thorsten ; Kókai, Gabriella
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. 2 in Comput. Sci., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
         
        
        
            fDate : 
July 29 2009-Aug. 1 2009
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We introduce a new method for estimating the position and direction of receiving elements of a Real-Time Location System (RTLS). We deployed an autonomous robot and an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) for this problem. The adopted operations and fitness calculation of the EA are presented for an Angle of Arrival (AoA) system and the results of simulation and real experiment setup were shown. Further problems of implementing in a real scenario were discussed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
direction-of-arrival estimation; evolutionary computation; mobile robots; navigation; receiving antennas; telecommunication control; angle of arrival system; autonomous configuration method; autonomous robot; direction estimation; evolutionary algorithm; position estimation; real-time location systems; receiving antenna; Antenna measurements; Directive antennas; Evolutionary computation; Mobile antennas; Radio frequency; Real time systems; Receiving antennas; Robots; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Angle of Arrival; Autonomous Configuration; Evolutionary Algorithm; RTLS;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2009. AHS 2009. NASA/ESA Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-3714-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/AHS.2009.10