Autonomous Configuration Method for Real-Time Location Systems

Author

Edelhäußer, Thorsten ; Kókai, Gabriella

Author_Institution

Dept. 2 in Comput. Sci., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

July 29 2009-Aug. 1 2009

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

272

Abstract

We introduce a new method for estimating the position and direction of receiving elements of a Real-Time Location System (RTLS). We deployed an autonomous robot and an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) for this problem. The adopted operations and fitness calculation of the EA are presented for an Angle of Arrival (AoA) system and the results of simulation and real experiment setup were shown. Further problems of implementing in a real scenario were discussed.

Keywords

direction-of-arrival estimation; evolutionary computation; mobile robots; navigation; receiving antennas; telecommunication control; angle of arrival system; autonomous configuration method; autonomous robot; direction estimation; evolutionary algorithm; position estimation; real-time location systems; receiving antenna; Antenna measurements; Directive antennas; Evolutionary computation; Mobile antennas; Radio frequency; Real time systems; Receiving antennas; Robots; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Angle of Arrival; Autonomous Configuration; Evolutionary Algorithm; RTLS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2009. AHS 2009. NASA/ESA Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3714-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AHS.2009.10

Filename

5325443