Indoor Localization for Autonomous Robot Navigation
This work addresses indoor navigation for autonomous robots, but it is incremental as it builds on existing IPS and ML methods.
The paper tackled indoor localization for autonomous robot navigation by collecting a dataset and training models, resulting in the robot successfully navigating corners around 50% of the time.
Indoor positioning systems (IPSs) have gained attention as outdoor navigation becomes prevalent in everyday life. Research is being actively conducted on how indoor smartphone navigation can be accomplished and improved using received signal strength indication (RSSI) and machine learning (ML). IPSs have more use cases that need further exploration, and we aim to explore using IPSs for the indoor navigation of an autonomous robot. We collected a dataset and trained models to test on a robot. We also developed an A* path-planning algorithm so that our robot could navigate itself using predicted directions. After testing different network structures, our robot was able to successfully navigate corners around 50 percent of the time. The findings of this paper indicate that using IPSs for autonomous robots is a promising area of future research.