Target localization and autonomous navigation using wireless sensor networks -a pseudogradient algorithm approach

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Publication Type pre-print
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Creator Henderson, Thomas C.
Other Author Deshpande, Nikhil.; Grant, Edward
Title Target localization and autonomous navigation using wireless sensor networks -a pseudogradient algorithm approach
Date 2014-01-01
Description Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) operating in unknown environments face twin challenges: 1) localization and 2) efficient directed navigation. This paper describes a two-tiered approach to solving these challenges: 1) by developing novel wireless-sensor-network (WSN)-based localization methods and 2) by using WSN-AMR interaction for navigation. The goal is to have an AMR travel from any point within a WSN-covered region to an identified target location without the aid of global sensing and position information. In this research, the target is reached as follows: 1) by producing a magnitude distribution within the WSN region that has a target-directed pseudogradient (PG) and 2) by having the WSN efficiently navigate the AMRs using the PG. This approach utilizes only the topology of the network and the received signal strength (RSS) among the sensor nodes to create the PG. This research shows that, even in the absence of global positioning information, AMRs can successfully navigate toward a target location using only the RSS in their local neighborhood to compute an optimal path. The utility of the proposed scheme is proved through extensive simulation and hardware experiments.
Type Text
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume 8
Issue 1
First Page 93
Last Page 103
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Deshpande, N., Grant, E., & Henderson, T. C. (2014). Target localization and autonomous navigation using wireless sensor networks - a pseudogradient algorithm approach. IEEE Systems Journal, 8(1), 93-103.
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