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Robot Localization Obtained By Using Inertial Measurements, Computer Vision, And Wireless Ranging, William Baker

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Robots have long been used for completing tasks that are too difficult, dangerous, or distant to be accomplished by humans. In many cases, these robots are highly specialized platforms - often expensive and capable of completing every task related to a mission's objective. An alternative approach is to use multiple platforms, each less capable in terms of number of tasks and thus significantly less complex and less costly. With advancements in embedded computing and wireless communications, multiple such platforms have been shown to work together to accomplish mission objectives. In the extreme, collections of very simple robots have demonstrated emergent …