Title
Underwater Localization and Environment Mapping Using Wireless Robots
Abstract
Localization and mapping are the fundamental ability for underwater robots to carry out exploration and searching tasks autonomously. This paper presents a novel approach to localization and mapping of a school of wirelessly connected underwater robotic fish (URF). It is based on both Cooperative Localization Particle Filter (CLPF) scheme and Occupancy Grid Mapping Algorithm (OGMA). Using the probabilistic framework, the proposed CLPF has the major advantage that no prior knowledge about the kinematic model of URF is required to achieve accurate 3D localization. It works well when the number of mobile beacons is less than four, which is the minimum number for some traditional localization algorithms. The localization result of CLPF is fed into OGMA to build the environment map. The performance of the proposed algorithms is evaluated through extensive simulation experiments, and results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11277-013-1106-z
Wireless Personal Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless robots,Robotic fish,Particle filter,Localization and mapping,Wireless sensor networks
Beacon,Computer vision,Wireless,Computer science,Particle filter,Real-time computing,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Wireless sensor network,Reflection mapping,Occupancy grid mapping
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
70
3
0929-6212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.77
19
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sen Wang127921.15
Ling Chen2364.03
Huosheng Hu32009220.95
Zhibin Xue4131.80
Wei Pan5284.45