Design and management of assembly systems 4.0: systematic literature review and research agenda

A Dolgui, F Sgarbossa, M Simonetto - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Assembly systems (ASs) have moved into the era of mass customisation and Industry 4.0 (I4.
0). Mass customisation involves a shift from the production of high quantities of the same …

An enhanced adaptive Monte Carlo Localization for service robots in dynamic and featureless environments

S He, T Song, P Wang, C Ding, X Wu - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization (AMCL) is a common technique for mobile
robot localization problem. However, AMCL performs poorly on localization when robot …

Accurate and efficient self-localization of AGV relying on trusted area information in dynamic industrial scene

J Meng, S Wang, L Jiang, Z Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are crucial for improving the operational efficiency of
industrial scenes, however the self-localization of AGVs faces severe challenges in a …

Real-time global localization of a mobile robot by exploiting RFID technology

A Tzitzis, A Filotheou, AR Chatzistefanou… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the problem of the global localization of a mobile robot by exploiting
RFID technology. The robot is equipped with kinematic sensors capable of measuring the …

Global localization of unmanned ground vehicles using swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms

JLC Carvalho, PCMA Farias, EF Simas Filho - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
Mobile robot localization is a complex task, specially in unstructured indoor environments,
due to noise and wrong scan-to-map association. The localization procedure becomes …

Real-time, robot-based, 3D localization of RFID tags, by transforming phase measurements to a linear optimization problem

A Tzitzis, A Malama, V Drakaki… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a prototype method for fast and accurate 3D localization of RFID-
tagged items by a mobile robot. The robot performs Simultaneous Localization of its own …

Tag localization by Handheld UHF RFID reader with optical and RFID landmarks

AR Chatzistefanou, G Sergiadis… - IEEE Journal of Radio …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper a prototype method for manual inventorying and real-time 3D localization of
RFID tagged products by a low-cost handheld UHF RFID reader is introduced. The device is …

Correspondenceless scan-to-map-scan matching of homoriented 2D scans for mobile robot localisation

A Filotheou - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is improving the location estimate of a mobile robot capable of
motion on a plane and mounted with a conventional 2D LIDAR sensor, given an initial guess …

[HTML][HTML] Correspondenceless scan-to-map-scan matching of 2D panoramic range scans

A Filotheou, AL Symeonidis, GD Sergiadis… - Array, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article a real-time method is proposed that reduces the pose estimate error for robots
capable of motion on the 2D plane. The solution that the method provides addresses the …

Localization, tracking and following a moving target by an RFID equipped robot

G Mylonopoulos, AR Chatzistefanou… - … Conference on RFID …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a prototype algorithm for tracking and following a moving target
through RFID technology by a robot. The robot is equipped with two front facing antennas …