TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS - An RFID Approach

Md. Suruz Miah, Wail Gueaieb

2009

Abstract

The recent advancements of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)-based localization approach has necessitates the development of effective solutions for mobile robot navigation systems in an indoor and/or outdoor environment. Among the most common problems pertaining to the modern RFID-based robot navigation systems are that multiple reference RF stations or excessive number of sensors are utilized for the location sensing with RFID, however, particularly in indoor environments, spatial layout or cost problems limit the applicability of those approaches. The contribution of the current manuscript is to devise a simple computationally efficient relative positioning system for indoor environments through a modified RFID tag architecture. The validity of the proposed RFID-based RPS is demonstrated using the real data collected in a typical indoor environment.

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Miah M., Gueaieb W. and Gueaieb W. (2009). TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS - An RFID Approach . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-674-000-9, pages 331-336. DOI: 10.5220/0002224403310336


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@conference{icinco09,
author={Md. Suruz Miah and Wail Gueaieb and Wail Gueaieb},
title={TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS - An RFID Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={331-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002224403310336},
isbn={978-989-674-000-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS - An RFID Approach
SN - 978-989-674-000-9
AU - Miah M.
AU - Gueaieb W.
AU - Gueaieb W.
PY - 2009
SP - 331
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0002224403310336