Automated navigation and mobile vehicle control using wireless sensor network technology

Author

Young, Kar-Keung D. ; Ou, Yong Quan ; Feng, Jun Tao ; Ou, Zhi Liang ; Cai, Lun Hui ; Cheng, Ken Kin Man ; Kam On Ho, J. ; Tsang, Timmy T M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel concept for automated navigation and control of a mobile platform. It utilizes an ad-hoc mobile wireless sensor network to provide navigational information to the mobile platform embedded control system. The embedded controller is realized with an ARM9 SOC based single board computer, with real time, multi-thread software implementation using a real time Linux operating system framework. We have repeatedly tested the automated navigation and control concept on a wheel based mobile platform in an indoor environment, and found the performance meeting our original design goals.

Keywords

Linux; embedded systems; multi-threading; navigation; vehicles; wireless sensor networks; ARM9 SOC; Linux operating system; ad-hoc mobile wireless sensor network; automated control; automated navigation; embedded control system; mobile vehicle control; multithread software; Automatic control; Control systems; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Linux; Navigation; Operating systems; Real time systems; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology, 2008. ICIT 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1705-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1706-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2008.4608536

Filename

4608536