Title :
Accurate navigation of industrial mobile robots
Author :
Blaha, Georges ; Gerig, Stephen R.
Author_Institution :
Envirospace Software Res. Inc., Indialantic, FL, USA
Abstract :
The paper treats the topic of accurate navigation of mobile robots in small areas, such as industrial facilities. The navigational system described uses a combination of an INS and state-of-the-art sensors collocated on board the robot. Under certain conditions, this combination enables the robot to determine its position at a millimeter level, and its orientation at an arcsec level
Keywords :
geodesy; gyroscopes; inertial navigation; laser ranging; mobile robots; ring lasers; INS; accurate navigation; geodimeter; industrial facilities; industrial mobile robots; millimeter level; navigational system; orientation; position determination; ring laser gyro; sensors; small areas; Industrial plants; Inspection; Mobile robots; Navigation; Nonlinear optics; Optical sensors; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Service robots;
Conference_Titel :
Position Location and Navigation Symposium, 1994., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1435-2
DOI :
10.1109/PLANS.1994.303409
