Modeling and benchmarking Ultra-Wideband localization for mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 443-447

  Bahr, Alexander ^a   Feldman, Alexander ^b   Colli Vignarellii, James ^a   Robert, Stephan ^b   Dehollaini, Catherine ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Information and Communication Technologies   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; robot navigation; UWB modeling

Indexed keywords

ASSET TRACKING; AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; COMMUNICATION ALGORITHMS; DEAD-RECKONING SENSORS; HARDWARE DESIGNERS; LOCALIZATION FOR MOBILE ROBOT; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; MOBILE ROBOTIC; RECEIVED SIGNALS; ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO; UWB LOCALIZATION; UWB SIGNALS; UWB TRANSMITTER;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; GAIN CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMITTERS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84870803982     PISSN: 21626588     EISSN: 21626596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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