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In this paper, an indoor robot localization system based on Robot Operating System (ROS) and visible light communication (VLC) is presented. On the basis of our previous work, we innovatively designed a VLC localization and navigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Weipeng Guan , Shihuan Chen , Shangsheng Wen , Wenyuan Hou , Zequn Tan , Ruihong Cen

Visible light positioning (VLP) is widely believed to be a cost-effective answer to the growing demanded for robot indoor positioning. Considering that some extreme environments require robot to be equipped with a precise and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hongyun Xie , Linyi Huang , Wenfei Wu

Autonomous vehicles rely on their perception systems to acquire information about their immediate surroundings. It is necessary to detect the presence of other vehicles, pedestrians and other relevant entities. Safety concerns and the need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 You Li , Javier Ibanez-Guzman

Two core competencies of a mobile robot are to build a map of the environment and to estimate its own pose on the basis of this map and incoming sensor readings. To account for the uncertainties in this process, one typically employs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Alexander Schaefer , Lukas Luft , Wolfram Burgard

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) have emerged as a crucial tool for high-resolution 3D imaging, particularly in autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and augmented reality. However, the increasing demand for faster acquisition speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yixiu Shen , Zi Heng Lim , Guangya Zhou

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising research topic in recent years, and finds its wide applications in indoor environments. Particularly, for location based services (LBS), visible light also provides a practical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-18 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza A. Kashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

With the growth of location-based services, indoor localization is attracting great interests as it facilitates further ubiquitous environments. Specifically, device free localization using wireless signals is getting increased attention as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Tahsina Farah Sanam , Hana Godrich

This paper details a number of indoor localization techniques developed for real-time monitoring of older adults. These were developed within the framework of the i-Light research project that was funded by the European Union. The project…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Iuliana Marin , Maria-Iuliana Bocicor , Arthur-Jozsef Molnar

The rapid increase in demand for wireless controlled Smart Lighting has created a need to automate the mapping between the identifiers for individual light sources and their physical locations. To control Smart Lights, their IDs and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Jagdeep Singh , Dan Watkinson , Tim Farnham , Daniele Puccinelli

Indoor localization based on Visible Light Communication (VLC) has been in favor with both the academia and industry for years. In this paper, we present a prototyping photodiode-based VLC system towards large-scale localization. Specially,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Qing Liang , Ming Liu

Visible light communication (VLC) systems are promising candidates for future indoor access and peer-to-peer networks. The performance of these systems, however, is vulnerable to the line of sight (LOS) link blockage due to objects inside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hamid Hosseinianfar , Maite Brandt-Pearce

Image-based fiducial markers are useful in problems such as object tracking in cluttered or textureless environments, camera (and multi-sensor) calibration tasks, and vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Shoutian Wang , Maani Ghaffari , Jessy W. Grizzle

In recent years, the intelligence of various parts of the home has become one of the essential features of any modern home. One of these parts is the intelligence lighting system that personalizes the light for each person. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Danial Safaei , Ali Sobhani , Ali Akbar Kiaei

The achievable data rate in indoor wireless systems that employ visible light communication (VLC) can be limited by multipath propagation. Here, we use computer generated holograms (CGHs) in VLC system design to improve the achievable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Safwan Hafeedh Younus , Ahmed Taha Hussein , Mohammed T. Alresheedi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Breathing monitoring is crucial in healthcare for early detection of health issues, but traditional methods face challenges like invasiveness, privacy concerns, and limited applicability in daily settings. This paper introduces light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Omar Rinchi , Ahmad Alsharoa , Denise A. Baker

Localization is paramount for autonomous robots. While camera and LiDAR-based approaches have been extensively investigated, they are affected by adverse illumination and weather conditions. Therefore, radar sensors have recently gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Abhijeet Nayak , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

Visible light communication (VLC) is an emerging technique that uses light-emitting diodes (LED) to combine communication and illumination. It is considered as a promising scheme for indoor wireless communication that can be deployed at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-09-19 Houssem Sifaou , Ki-Hong Park , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) are fast emerging sensors in the field of Earth Observation. It is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser beams to measure distances and create detailed three-dimensional representations of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Saad Ahmed Jamal

Localization of objects is vital for robot-object interaction. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) application in robotics is an emerging and widely used object localization technique due to its accurate distance measurement, long-range,…

Visible light positioning(VLP) has gained prominence as a highly accurate indoor positioning technique. Few techniques consider the practical limitations of implementing VLP systems for indoor positioning. These limitations range from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Srivathsan Chakaravarthi Narasimman , Arokiaswami Alphones