Modeling RFID signal strength and tag detection for localization and mapping

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3160-3165

  Joho, Dominik ^a   Plagemann, Christian ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MAPPING; MOBILE AGENTS; ROBOTICS;

LOCALIZATION AND MAPPINGS; MODEL ACCURACY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; STATE OF THE ART; TAG DETECTION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 85068570298     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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