2015 journal article
Autonomous navigation using received signal strength and bearing-only pseudogradient interpolation
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, 75, 129–144.
author keywords: WSN-assisted navigation; Spline-interpolated RSS; Bearing-only estimation; Particle filtering; Directional antennas; Map-less; Ranging-less navigation
TL;DR:
These novel approaches use only the information inherent in WSNs, i.e., received signal strength, to address the second-tier and third-tier challenges of navigating in unknown environments and provide for efficient map-less and ranging-less navigation methods.
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Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) interacting with an a priori distributed wireless sensor network (WSN) in a region can address the three-tier challenge of navigating in unknown environments: (i) identifying target locations, (ii) planning paths to the targets, and (iii) efficiently executing the navigation paths to the targets. This paper presents low-complexity algorithms to address the second-tier and third-tier challenges, i.e., efficiently planning and executing paths to target locations. These novel approaches use only the information inherent in WSNs, i.e., received signal strength (RSS). The objective is to have the AMR navigate to a target location by: (i) producing an RSS-based artificial magnitude distribution in the navigation region, (ii) using particle filtering based bearing estimation for orientation information, and (iii) using interpolated pseudogradient for efficient path planning and navigation. Here, the AMR does not require: (i) the global location information for itself or the WSN, (ii) a priori information of the direction of a target location, or (iii) sophisticated ranging equipment for prior mapping. The AMR relies only on local, neighborhood information and low-cost wireless directional antennas for navigation. Real-world and simulation experiments, using a variety of node-densities, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes. The low-cost, low-complexity advantages of the WSN–AMR interactive navigation provide for efficient map-less and ranging-less navigation methods.