{"id":3667,"date":"2019-06-25T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2021-10-28T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:58:17","slug":"using-ibeacons-for-locating-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacons-for-locating-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Using iBeacons for Locating Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beacons are great for use with robots for use in determining extra contextual information. There&#8217;s recent research on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Autonomous Navigation of an Indoor Mecanum-Wheeled Omnidirectional Robot Using Segnet (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ga.ntnu.edu.tw\/2019nssse\/paper\/SS07-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Autonomous Navigation of an Indoor Mecanum-Wheeled Omnidirectional Robot Using Segnet<\/a> (pdf) that uses iBeacons to determine a rough location of the robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/segnetrobot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3668\" width=\"521\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/segnetrobot.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/segnetrobot-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 85vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The locating uses Kalman filtering and trilateration to get a fix for the robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to learn more about using RSSI to determine robot location there&#8217;s also a presentation video <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Robot Localization using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons RSSI (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/canal.uned.es\/video\/5cff7e89a3eeb01b4d8b4567\" target=\"_blank\">Robot Localization using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons RSSI Measures<\/a> by David Obreg\u00f3n Castellanos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/BeaconForRTLS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS) (opens in a new tab)\">Using Beacons, iBeacons for Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beacons are great for use with robots for use in determining extra contextual information. There&#8217;s recent research on Autonomous Navigation of an Indoor Mecanum-Wheeled Omnidirectional Robot Using Segnet (pdf) that uses iBeacons to determine a rough location of the robot. The locating uses Kalman filtering and trilateration to get a fix for the robot. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-ibeacons-for-locating-robots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using iBeacons for Locating Robots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,253,130,293],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3759,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}