Indoor navigation research with the Khepera III mobile robot: An experimental baseline with a case-study on ultra-wideband positioning

2010 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Prorok, Amanda ^a   Arfire, Adrian ^a   Bahr, Alexander ^a   Farserotu, John R ^b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INDOOR LOCATIONS; INDOOR NAVIGATION; INDOOR POSITIONING; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; KHEPERA; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; MULTI-ROBOT LOCALIZATION; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

NAVIGATION;

EID: 78650755224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2010.5647880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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