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Evaluating the Effect of Robot Group Size on Relative Localisation Precision

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2011)

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Looking on co-operative position estimation in multi-robot systems, the question to what extend the number of robots has an influence on the quality of the resulting localisation is an important and interesting issue. This paper addresses this relation regarding a pure relative localisation approach based only on mutual observations between the robots. The intuitive expectation that more robots should improve the position estimation is motivated and the design of the experiments with special respect to possibly distorting parameters is discussed and reasoned in detail. An in-depth analysis of the collected data explains the only partial conformance of the experimental results with the expected outcome.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE), Wachtberg, Germany

    Frank E. Schneider & Dennis Wildermuth

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  1. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

  2. Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Horward Street, S1 1WB, Sheffield, UK

    Lyuba Alboul  & Jacques Penders  & 

  3. Department of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), University of Bristol and the West of England, Bristol Business Park, BS16 1QD, Bistol, UK

    Chris Melhuish

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Mark Witkowski

  5. Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Wstern Bank, S10 2TN, Sheffield, UK

    Tony J. Prescott

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Schneider, F.E., Wildermuth, D. (2011). Evaluating the Effect of Robot Group Size on Relative Localisation Precision. In: Groß, R., Alboul, L., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M., Prescott, T.J., Penders, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_14

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