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This paper presents an infrastructure-free approach for obstacle detection and environmental mapping using ultra-wideband (UWB) radar mounted on a mobile robotic platform. Traditional sensing modalities such as visual cameras and Light…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Adelina Giurea , Stijn Luchie , Dieter Coppens , Jeroen Hoebeke , Eli De Poorter

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology has seen an increased penetration in the robotics field as a robust localization method in recent years. UWB enables high accuracy distance estimation from time-of-flight measurements of wireless…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Carmen Martínez Almansa , Wang Shule , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Systems for relative localization in multi-robot systems based on ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging have recently emerged as robust solutions for GNSS-denied environments. Scalability remains one of the key challenges, particularly in ad-hoc…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Paola Torrico Morón , Salma Salimi , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Localization of an autonomous mobile robot during planetary exploration is challenging due to the unknown terrain, the difficult lighting conditions and the lack of any global reference such as satellite navigation systems. We present a…

High-accuracy absolute localization for a team of vehicles is essential when accomplishing various kinds of tasks. As a promising approach, collaborative localization fuses the individual motion measurements and the inter-vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Jian Wen , Mingquan Lu

Precise and accurate localization in outdoor and indoor environments is a challenging problem that currently constitutes a significant limitation for several practical applications. Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization technology represents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Vittorio Mazzia , Giovanni Fantin , Dario Gandini , Marcello Chiaberge

In multi-robot systems, relative localization between platforms plays a crucial role in many tasks, such as leader following, target tracking, or cooperative maneuvering. State of the Art (SotA) approaches either rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Valerio Brunacci , Alberto Dionigi , Alessio De Angelis , Gabriele Costante

Navigation in an unknown environment without any preexisting positioning infrastructure has always been hard for mobile robots. This paper presents a self-deployable ultra wideband UWB infrastructure by mobile agents, that permits a dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Luca Santoro , Davide Brunelli , Daniele Fontanelli

This paper proposes an ultra-wideband (UWB) aided localization and mapping system that leverages on inertial sensor and depth camera. Inspired by the fact that visual odometry (VO) system, regardless of its accuracy in the short term, still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Chen Wang , Handuo Zhang , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular as a means of inter-robot ranging and communication. A major constraint associated with UWB is that only one pair of UWB transceivers can range at a time to avoid interference,…

While UWB-based methods can achieve high localization accuracy in small-scale areas, their accuracy and reliability are significantly challenged in large-scale environments. In this paper, we propose a learning-based framework named ULOC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Yizhuo Yang , Tien-Dat Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

This paper presents a method to improve the localization accuracy of robots operating in a range-based localization network. The method is favorable especially when the robots operate in harsh environments where the access to a robust and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Mark W. Mueller

A bidirectional Ultra-Wideband (UWB) localization scheme is one of the three widely adopted design integration processes commonly used in time-based UWB positioning systems. The key property of bidirectional UWB localization is its ability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Cung Lian Sang , Michael Adams , Marc Hesse , Ulrich Rückert

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging and localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions is still an open research topic. Indeed, multipath…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Simone Angarano , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

Precise localization and tracking of moving non-collaborative persons and objects using a network of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar nodes has been shown to represent a practical and effective approach. In UWB radar sensor networks (RSNs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 B. Yan , A. Giorgetti , E. Paolini

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,…

Accurate and robust positioning in multipath environments can enable many applications, such as search-and-rescue and asset tracking. For this problem, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology can provide the most accurate range estimates, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson , Javier Ferrer-Coll , Peter Stenumgaard

Localization systems based on ultra-wide band (UWB) measurements can have unsatisfactory performance in harsh environments due to the presence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors. Learning-based methods for error mitigation have shown great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuxiao Li , Santiago Mazuelas , Yuan Shen

Accurate localization and tracking are a fundamental requirement for robotic applications. Localization systems like GPS, optical tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are used for daily life activities, research, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yanjun Cao , Chenhao Yang , Rui Li , Alois Knoll , Giovanni Beltrame