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Multi Block Localization of Multiple Robots

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Progress in Robotics (FIRA 2009)

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The multi block localization method for multiple robots using ultrasonic beacons provides a high accuracy solution using only low price sensors. To measure the distance of a mobile robot from a beacon, the mobile robot wakes up one beacon to send out the ultrasonic signal to measure the traveling time from the beacon to the mobile robot. When multiple robots are moving in the same block, it needs a scheduling to choose measuring-sequence in order to overcome ultrasonic signal interferences among robots at every time. But the increased time delay to estimate the positions for the multiple robots degrades the localization accuracy. This paper proposes an efficient localization algorithm for the multiple robots, where the robots are grouped into one master robot and the other slave robots. In this method, when a master robot calls a beacon, all the robots simultaneously receive the identical ultrasonic signal to estimate their positions.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Geumjeong Gu, 609-735, Republic of Korea

    TaeKyung Yang, JaeHyun Park & JangMyung Lee

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat , Abdullah Al Manum  & Ryohei Nakatsu ,  & 

  4. Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Jesse

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, P.O. Box, 117576, Singapore

    Sadasivan Puthusserypady K

  6. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, System and Circuit Technology, University of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulrich Rückert

  7. School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box, Brisbane, Australia

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  8. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulf Witkowski

  9. The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

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  10. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, P.O. Box, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Jacky Baltes  & John Anderson  & 

  11. Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Chang Wong

  12. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dept. of Education in Technology & Science, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Igor Verner

  13. Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA

    David Ahlgren

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Yang, T., Park, J., Lee, J. (2009). Multi Block Localization of Multiple Robots. In: Kim, JH., et al. Progress in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_35

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