A fast onboard relative positioning module for multirobot systems

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-162

  Pugh, Jim ^a   Raemy, Xavier ^b   Favre, Cédric ^c   Falconi, Riccardo ^d   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Allergan Medical SA   (Switzerland)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control systems; Mechatronics; Mobile robots; Positioning systems

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CARRIER COMMUNICATION; CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MECHATRONICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS PROTOCOLS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INFRARED EMISSIONS; MINIATURE ROBOTS; MULTI-ROBOT FORMATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; RELATIVE POSITIONING; RELATIVE POSITIONS; ROBOTIC MODULES;

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 67349187686     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.2011810     Document Type: Article

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