Rotation-Based Dynamic Localization at an Initial Dead-Zone Avoidance Stage on an RFID Tag Lattice

Kenri Kodaka; Haruhiko Niwa; Shigeki Sugano

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JRM Vol.21 No.4 pp. 460-468

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2009.p0460

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Rotation-Based Dynamic Localization at an Initial Dead-Zone Avoidance Stage on an RFID Tag Lattice

Kenri Kodaka, Haruhiko Niwa, and Shigeki Sugano

Waseda University, WABOT-HOUSE Laboratory
1-18 Techno-Plaza, Kakamigahara-shi, Gifu 509-0109, Japan

Received:

January 12, 2009

Accepted:

April 15, 2009

Published:

August 20, 2009

Keywords:

RFID, localization, particle filter, ambient intelligence, dynamic model

Abstract

We have developed a novel way for robots to estimate their pose dynamically in an environment in which RFID tags have been arranged. We previously developed a method for localizing robots using a particle filter. Testing in a room equipped with an RFID tag lattice at 300-mm intervals revealed that the estimation fails when the robot’s RFID readers are near the center of the robot’s rotation since the reader could not detect enough tags depending on the robot’s rotating location. We overcame this problem by developing an active localization algorithm that generates an entropy map from RFID tag arrangement information, predicts the pose using a particle filter, and attracts the robot to the target using a dynamic model whose basic unit is rotation-based angular velocity. Testing demonstrated that a robot using this algorithm and an entropy map can estimate its pose robustly without falling into a dead zone by moving only about 200 mm.

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K. Kodaka, H. Niwa, and S. Sugano, “Rotation-Based Dynamic Localization at an Initial Dead-Zone Avoidance Stage on an RFID Tag Lattice,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.21 No.4, pp. 460-468, 2009.

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[8] [8] V. Kulyukin, A. Kutiyanawala, and M. Jiang, “Surface-embedded Passive RF Exteroception: Kepler, Greed, and Buffon's Needle,” Proc. of the Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), pp. 33-42, 2007.

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