Localization of an omnidirectional transport robot using IEEE 802.15.4a ranging and laser range finder

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3798-3803

  Röhrig, Christof ^a   Heß, Daniel ^a   Kirsch, Christopher ^a   Künemund, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS DORTMUND   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES; CONTINUOUS MATERIALS; CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISTRIBUTION CENTERS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; IEEE 802.15.4A; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; JUST IN TIME; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LEAN PRODUCTION; LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING; MANUFACTURING PLANT; MATERIAL FLOW; MATERIAL TRANSPORT; MECANUM WHEELS; MONTE CARLO PARTICLES; MOTION MODELS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL MOBILE ROBOT; OMNIDIRECTIONAL ROBOTS; PRODUCTION CYCLE; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR FUSION; SENSOR MODEL; TRANSPORT UNITS;

CONVEYORS; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MOBILE ROBOTS; PALLETS; RANGE FINDERS; SENSORS; WAREHOUSES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651491549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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