Cooperative Relative Localization for Mobile Robot Teams: An Ego-Centric Approach

Abstract

This paper describes a cooperative relative localization method for mobile robot teams. That is, it describes a method whereby each robot may determine the pose of every other robot in the team, relative to itself. This method does not require GPS, landmarks, or any kind of environment model. Instead, robots make direct measurements of the relative pose of nearby robots, and broadcast this information to the team as a whole; each robot processes this information to generate ego-centric estimates of the pose of other robots, including those robots that they cannot observe directly. The method makes use of a Bayesian formalism and particle filter implementation, and is, as a result, very robust. The system described in this paper will both self-initialize (i.e., it does not require a priori pose estimates) and self-correct (it can recover from tracking failures). The method is well suited to applications involving unstructured, unknown, or nonstationary environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA575471

Entities

People

  • Andrew J. Howard
  • Gaurav S. Sukhatme
  • Maja Matarić

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Environment
  • Kalman Filters
  • Machine Learning
  • Measurement
  • Particles
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Range Finders
  • Robotic Swarms
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Sequential Monte Carlo Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Space
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers