Title
WiFi-Based Indoor Robot Positioning Using Deep Fuzzy Forests
Abstract
Addressing the positioning problem of a mobile robot remains challenging to date despite many years of research. Indoor robot positioning strategies developed in the literature either rely on sophisticated computer vision techniques to handle visual inputs or require strong domain knowledge for nonvisual sensors. Although some systems have been deployed, the former may be lacking due to the intrinsic limitation of cameras (such as calibration, data association, system initialization, etc.) and the latter usually only works under certain environment layouts and additional equipment. To cope with those issues, we design a lightweight indoor robot positioning system which operates on cost-effective WiFi-based received signal strength (RSS) and could be readily pluggable into any existing WiFi network infrastructures. Moreover, a novel deep fuzzy forest is proposed to inherit the merits of decision trees and deep neural networks within an end-to-end trainable architecture. Real-world indoor localization experiments are conducted and results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the existing approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/JIOT.2020.2986685
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Deep fuzzy forests,indoor robot positioning,WiFi
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2327-4662
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Le Zhang1979.97
Chen Zhenghua214110.59
Cui Wei3568.44
Bing Li4206.35
Cen Chen561.20
zhiguang cao6394.30
Kaizhou Gao734530.78