Signage System for the Navigation of Autonomous Robots in Indoor Environments

  1. Malfaz, Maria 1
  2. Salichs, Miguel A. 1
  3. Corrales Paredes, Ana 1
  1. 1 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03ths8210

Revista:
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

ISSN: 1551-3203,  1941-0050

Año de publicación: 2014

Volumen: 10

Número: 1

Páginas: 680-688

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1109/TII.2013.2246173 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Resumen

In many occasions people need to go to certain places without having any prior knowledge about the environment. This situation may occur when the place is visited for the first time, or even when there is not any available map to situate us. In those cases, the signs of the environment are essential for achieving the goal. The same situation may happen for an autonomous robot. This kind of robots must be capable of solving this problem in a natural way. In order to do that, they must use the resources present in their environment. This paper presents a RFID-based signage system, which has been developed to guide and give important information to an autonomous robot. The system has been implemented in a real indoor environment and it has been successfully proved in the autonomous and social robot Maggie. At the end of the paper some experimental results, carried out inside our university building, are presented.

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