Accuracy Improvement in Mobile Robot Localization Via Integrated UWB and Wheel Odometry
摘要
Autonomous mobile robots are used in warehouse logistics and automatic unmanned production. This paper presents an algorithm for sensor fusion of measurements from a UWB-based radio navigation system with encoder measurements. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the use of a UWB-based navigation system to correct the estimates of the mobile robot’s position obtained through dead reckoning using encoder data, which accumulates error over time. The study focuses on a robot with a differential drive. The presented algorithm is based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), where the estimated parameters include the robot’s two-dimensional coordinates, heading in the local coordinate system, linear and angular velocities. The observations consist of estimates of the robot’s two-dimensional coordinates and the angular velocities of the wheels. The paper presents the results of simulation modeling and experimental studies of the proposed algorithm. These results demonstrated a positive effect when integrating measurements from the radio navigation and odometric systems, resulting in improved accuracy of determining the coordinates, linear velocity, and heading angle.