An Efficient Localization Scheme for a Differential-Driving Mobile Robot Based on RFID System
Soonshin Han
HyungSoo Lim
JangMyung Lee
Pusan Nat. Univ., Pusan;
This paper appears in: Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Dec. 2007
Volume: 54,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 3362-3369
ISSN: 0278-0046
INSPEC Accession Number: 9681902
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIE.2007.906134
Current Version Published: 2007-11-19
Abstract
This paper presents an efficient localization scheme for an indoors mobile robot using Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems. The mobile robot carries an RFID reader at the bottom of the chassis, which reads the RFID tags on the floor to localize the mobile robot. Each of the RFID tags stores its own absolute position, which is used to calculate the position, orientation, and velocity of the mobile robot. However, a localization system based on RFID technology inevitably suffers from an estimation error. In this paper, a new triangular pattern of arranging the RFID tags on the floor has been proposed to reduce the estimation error of the conventional square pattern. In addition, the motion-continuity property of the differential-driving mobile robot has been utilized to improve the localization accuracy of the mobile robot. According to the conventional approach, two readers are necessary to identify the orientation of the mobile robot. Therefore, this new approach, based on the motion-continuity property of the differential-driving mobile robot, provides a cheap and fast estimation of the orientation. The proposed algorithms used to raise the accuracy of the robot localization are successfully verified through experiments.
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