At the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), we have studied and developed radio-based swarm navigation technologies for a decade. In this paper, we provide a complete solution of ultra-wide band (UWB) localization network for a robotic swarm. This network is organized in a fully decentralized fashion and resilient to clock imperfections, topology changes, packet loss and the hidden node problem. In this network, a multitude of active devices and an arbitrary number of passive devices can exploit the UWB signals for self-localization, i.e. estimating their relative positions and orientations, without sophisticated clock and antenna calibration, which dramatically simplifies the de-sign and manufacturing of such a swarm. Our proposed solution is verified with experiments and was successfully demonstrated in a space-analogue multi-robot surface exploration mission on the volcano Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy, in July 2022.


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    Title :

    Self-Organized UWB Localization for Robotic Swarm – First Results from an Analogue Mission on Volcano Etna




    Publication date :

    2023-03-04


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    27576605 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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