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Despite the growing adoption of radar in robotics, the majority of research has been confined to homogeneous sensor types, overlooking the integration and cross-modality challenges inherent in heterogeneous radar technologies. This leads to…
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An implementation-efficient finite alphabet decoder for polar codes relying on coarsely quantized messages and low-complexity operations is proposed. Typically, finite alphabet decoding performs concatenated compression operations on the…
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a widely used technology for identifying and locating objects equipped with low-cost RFID transponders (tags). UHF (Ultra High Frequency) RFID operates in frequency bands around 900 MHz and supports…
A long-standing vision of backscatter communications is to provide long-range connectivity and high-speed transmissions for batteryless Internet-of-Things (IoT). Recent years have seen major innovations in designing backscatters toward this…
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Radio frequency identification (RFID), The real-time location of objects and ability to track motion provide a wide range of useful applications in areas such as safety, security and supply chain. In recent years, radio frequency…
Cashierless stores rely on computer vision and RFID tags to associate shoppers with items, but concealed items placed in backpacks, pockets, or bags create challenges for theft prevention. We introduce a system that turns existing RFID…
Billions of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) passive tags are produced yearly to identify goods remotely. New research and business applications are continuously arising, including recently localization and sensing to monitor earth…
This article addresses the localization problem in robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection at airports and provides a systematic evaluation of different methods to solve it. The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection is a…
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Lidar has become a cornerstone sensing modality for 3D vision, especially for large outdoor scenarios and autonomous driving. Conventional lidar sensors are capable of providing centimeter-accurate distance information by emitting laser…
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a powerful technology that, due to its numerous advantages, is supposed to replace the various identification systems such as barcodes or magnetic stripes in a short time. There are three devices…
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems are pivotal for precise distance and velocity measurement, yet widespread deployment requires solutions that balance their performance, robustness, and simplicity. Here, we propose a novel chaotic…