...Yongchao Fan; Tongfei Hu; Fan Zhao; Zhengdong Wang; Xiaoguo Zhang Purpose Mainstream LiDAR simultaneous localization and mapping ( SLAM ) systems often face challenges such as cumulative localization drift and loop closure mismatches when operating in large-scale complex outdoor environments...

...Matthew Peebles; Shen Hin Lim; Mike Duke; Benjamin Mcguinness; Chi Kit Au Purpose Time of flight (ToF) imaging is a promising emerging technology for the purposes of crop identification. This paper aim to presents localization system for identifying and localizing asparagus in the field based...

.... Without relying on the wheel speed odometer, the robot synchronization localization and 3D environment modeling for multi-layer space are realized. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested and compared in two types of underground space, and the robustness and accuracy in multi-layer space...

... Sensors Localization Mobile robots Robot design Construction industry Figure 1 Dr Tessa Lau, Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics Lau: Savioke Relay www.savioke.com robots had so many misbehaviors that I think they had minds of their own. One of the most challenging tasks we had to do...

...Rupeng Yuan; Fuhai Zhang; Jiadi Qu; Guozhi Li; Yili Fu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an enhanced pose tracking method using progressive scan matching, focusing on accuracy, time efficiency and robustness. Design/methodology/approach The general purpose of localization...

...Heber Sobreira; A. Paulo Moreira; Paulo Costa; José Lima Purpose This paper aims to address a mobile robot localization system that avoids using a dedicated laser scanner, making it possible to reduce implementation costs and the robot’s size. The system has enough precision and robustness to meet...

.... The prospects of a cost-effective robotic arm which can manipulate the probe in such situations are still remote. Positioning Inspection Localization Mobile robots Robot vision Mohammed Abdullah Al Rashed is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: alrashem@lsbu.ac.uk Portable...

...Qing Tang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to design the localization and tracking algorithms for our mobile welding robot to carry out the large steel structure welding operations in industrial environment. Design/methodology/approach – Extended Kalman filter, considering the bicycle...

...Yong Wang; Weidong Chen; Jingchuan Wang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a localizability-based particle filtering localization algorithm for mobile robots to maintain localization accuracy in the high-occluded and dynamic environments with moving people. Design/methodology...

...Wenshan Wang; Qixin Cao; Xiaoxiao Zhu; Masaru Adachi Purpose – Robot localization technology has been widely studied for decades and a lot of remarkable approaches have been developed. However, in practice, this technology has hardly been applied to common day-to-day deployment scenarios...

...Mohammadreza Bayat; A. Pedro Aguiar Purpose – The authors aim to investigate the observability properties of the process of simultaneous localization and mapping of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a challenging and important problem in marine robotics, and illustrate the derived results...

... wherever is its initial position; and the proposed algorithms could estimate the robot pose well and accurately evaluate the localization performance. Research limitations/implications At present, the service robot could only work in an indoor environment where there is steady illumination...

...Piotr Skrzypczynski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel application of the well‐established 2D laser scan‐matching technique for self‐localization of a walking robot. The techniques described in this paper enable a walking robot with a 2D laser scanner to obtain precise maps...

...Tony Evans; Sooyong Lee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel localization scheme using infrared identification (IRID) fused with encoder information. Design/methodology/approach IRID emitters are mounted on the ceiling in order to divide the floor workspace into sectors...

...Paolo Pirjanian; Niklas Karlsson; Luis Goncalves; Enrico Di Bernardo One difficult problem in robotics is localization: the ability of a mobile robot to determine its position in the environment. Roboticists around the globe have been working to find a solution to localization for more than 20...

...Ahmed Louchene; Nour Eddine Bouguechal This paper deals with the design and implementation of an improved localization method. The study presented in this paper focuses on the displacement and heading errors. The technique proposed improves considerably on dead reckoning methods by reducing...

.... © MCB UP Limited 2001 Robots Localization Collision avoidance Communications Each vehicle is equipped with two driven wheels (differential drive) including shaft encoders for motion tracking (see Plate 1). The robots are able to move at a speed of up to 1.2m/second. Four castor...

... the localization accuracy for mobile robots in a continuous operation, in which the Kalman filter algorithm is adopted to integrate odometry data with scanner data to achieve the required robustness and accuracy. The Kohonen neural networks have been used to recognize landmarks using scanner data in order...

...Hugh Durrant‐Whyte Examines one of the main problems of mobile robot navigation:determining exactly where the robot is at all times. Describes the most important algorithm in localization: the extended Kalman filter. Looks at the simplest type of navigation using a system of fixed beacons...

... remote control and robotic systems for 30 years at Radamec EPO and previously with Rank Taylor Hobson and Ferranti. He can be contacted at 85 Rydens Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 3AN. Tel: 0932 561181. IR Vol. 21 No. 2, 1994 19 © MCB UP Limited 1994 Robots Navigation Localization...