ROBOT LOCALIZATION BASED ON VISUAL LANDMARKS

Hala Mousher Ebied, Ulf Witkowski, Ulrich Rückert, Mohamed Saied Abdel-Wahab

2008

Abstract

In this paper, we will consider the localization problem of the autonomous minirobot Khepera II in a known environment. Mobile robots must be able to determine their own position to operate successfully in any environments. Our system combines odometry and a 2-D vision sensor to determine the position of the robot based on a new triangulation algorithm. The new system uses different colored cylinder landmarks which are positioned at the corners of the environment. The main aim is to analyze the accuracy and the robustness in case of noisy data and to obtain an accurate method to estimate the robot’s position.

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Mousher Ebied H., Witkowski U., Rückert U. and Saied Abdel-Wahab M. (2008). ROBOT LOCALIZATION BASED ON VISUAL LANDMARKS . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8111-31-9, pages 49-53. DOI: 10.5220/0001484400490053


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco08,
author={Hala Mousher Ebied and Ulf Witkowski and Ulrich Rückert and Mohamed Saied Abdel-Wahab},
title={ROBOT LOCALIZATION BASED ON VISUAL LANDMARKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2008},
pages={49-53},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001484400490053},
isbn={978-989-8111-31-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - ROBOT LOCALIZATION BASED ON VISUAL LANDMARKS
SN - 978-989-8111-31-9
AU - Mousher Ebied H.
AU - Witkowski U.
AU - Rückert U.
AU - Saied Abdel-Wahab M.
PY - 2008
SP - 49
EP - 53
DO - 10.5220/0001484400490053