Accommodation of NLOS for ultra-wideband TDOA localization in single- and multi-robot systems

2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Prorok, Amanda ^a   Tomé, Phillip ^b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

collaborative localization; mobile robots; Non line of sight; ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LOCALIZATION; COLLABORATIVE TEAMS; ERROR MODEL; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; PATH CONDITION; REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION; RELATIVE POSITIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 82955197388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2011.6071927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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