Design and implementation of a self-guided indoor robot based on a two-tier localization architecture

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 271-281

  Yeh, Lun Wu ^a   Hsu, Ming Hsiu ^a   Huang, Hong Ying ^a   Tseng, Yu Chee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Intelligent home; Localization; Pervasive computing; RFID; Robot

Indexed keywords

INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; MACHINE DESIGN; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ROBOTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; HOME APPLICATION; HOME ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT HOME; LOCALIZATION; PROTOTYPING SYSTEMS; TWO-TIER ARCHITECTURE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84858154012     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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