Mobile robot localization using the phase of passive UHF RFID signals

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 365-376

  Digiampaolo, Emidio ^a   Martinelli, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous wave radar; global localization; multihypothesis Kalman filtering; UHF RFID

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; KALMAN FILTERS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; KALMAN-FILTERING; MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION READERS; UHF RFID;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84880884531     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2248333     Document Type: Article

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