Low-Cost Sonic-Based Indoor Localization for Mobile Robots
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چکیده
Every year, several environmental causes let significant amounts of grain spoil even though it is properly stored in dedicated silos. To reduces the resulting financial losses, engineers have developed a special robot called grainbutler. The robot is supposed to cover the entire area in a systematic way. To this end, a PC-based control software derives the robot’s current position and submitts appropriate control commands. This paper is about the necessary localization system. It is based on (ultra-) sonic acoustics, and yields a precision of about 2-4 cm in closed rooms of up to 50m × 50m in size at a cost of significantly less than 1000¤ (approximately 1200 USD).
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