Title :
Evaluation of indoor mobile robot localization techniques
Author :
Sibai, F.N. ; Trigui, H. ; Zanini, P.C. ; Al-Odail, A.R.
Author_Institution :
R&D Center, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
Mobile robot localization is an important operation used in several applications. For instance, the location of the mobile robot can be used to associate environment data captured by the robot with the location where this data is captured, or to issue robot commands dependent on location and remaining battery energy. We explore three localization methods for indoor robots: optical wheel encode, ultrasonic sensors, and received WiFi signal strength. We experiment with these localization methods on a National Instruments wheeled DANI robot, compare their accuracies, and evaluate their merits.
Keywords :
electromechanical effects; mobile robots; sensor placement; ultrasonic transducers; wheels; wireless LAN; National Instruments wheeled DANI robot; Wi-Fi received signal strength; battery energy; environment data; indoor mobile robot localization evaluation techniques; mobile robot location; optical wheel encoder; robot commands; ultrasonic sensors; Acoustics; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Wheels; Wireless LAN; Optical Wheel Encoder; Robot localization; Ultrasonic sensor; WLAN localization;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Systems and Industrial Informatics (ICCSII), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sharjah
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5155-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSII.2012.6454560
