An intelligent mobile robot navigation technique using RFID technology

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1908-1917

  Gueaieb, Wail ^a   Miah, Suruz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Mobile robots; Navigation; Position control; Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID); Robot sensing systems

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; TARGET TRACKING; TECHNOLOGY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

3-D SPACE; A-PRIORI; ASSEMBLY LINES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; FUZZY LOGIC; HIGH-PRECISION; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION METHODS; NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES; POSITION CONTROL; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; RF-ID TAGS; RFID TECHNOLOGY; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; SERVICE ROBOTS; STATE OF THE ARTS; TARGET POINTING; TEST-BEDS; UNKNO WN ENVIRONMENTS; VISION SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 49549122391     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.919902     Document Type: Article

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