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Mobile Robots in Smart Environments: The Current Situation

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Autonomous Mobile Systems 2012

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This work aims to give an overview about the current research concerning mobile robots in smart environments. It is part of the motivation of a paradigm that aims to shift complexity away from mobile machines into the (smart) environment without sacrificing the safety of the overall system. Several results of current and ongoing research will be presented, including a powerful simulation environment that allows to simulate the overall system including ambient sensors, communication within a wireless sensor network (WSN) and mobile robots. Also some experiments about the localization of mobile robots in smart environments and results will be presented.

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  1. Robotics Research Lab, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Michael Arndt & Karsten Berns

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  1. Inst. Parallele und Verteilte Systeme, Universität Stuttgart, Universitätsstr. 38, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

    Paul Levi

  2. , Inst. f. Parallele u. Verteilte Systeme, Universität Stuttgart, Universitätstr. 38, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

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Arndt, M., Berns, K. (2012). Mobile Robots in Smart Environments: The Current Situation. In: Levi, P., Zweigle, O., Häußermann, K., Eckstein, B. (eds) Autonomous Mobile Systems 2012. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32217-4_5

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