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An Active System for Three-Dimensional Localization of Mobile Robots

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This paper presents an active system, which is composed of a laser range finder and four artificial reflectors, for the three-dimensional (3D) localization of a mobile robot. In this system, it will be proved that the position and the orientation of a mobile robot in a 3D space with respect to a reference frame can be determined provided that the four artificial reflectors are not installed in the same plane. Since the artificial reflectors cannot be treated as points in practice, the proposed localization procedure will be formulated as a nonlinear programming problem to account for actual sizes of the artificial reflectors. To show the validity and feasibility of the proposed method, a series of experiments will be given for illustration.

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Lai, LC., Wu, CJ. An Active System for Three-Dimensional Localization of Mobile Robots. J Intell Robot Syst 44, 123–137 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-005-9003-7

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