Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become much more relevant in recent years, mainly because they can be used in a wide diversity of applications. Real-time locating systems (RTLSs) are one of the most promising applications ...

An approach for achieving reliable, built-in, high-accuracy force sensing for legged robots is presented, based on direct exploitation of the properties of a robot’s mechanical structure. The proposed methodology relies ...

Nowadays, indoor Real-Time Locating Systems represent one of the most exciting applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks using wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi or ZigBee. Indoor Real-Time Locating Systems based on ...

Feet-ground interactions influence the legged robot's stability. In this paper, a high-resolution indirect force measurement for hydraulic-legged robots is presented. The use of pressure transducers placed at one or both ...

State estimation is of crucial importance to mobile robotics since it determines in a great measure its ability to model the world from noisy observations. In order to quantitatively evaluate state-estimation methods, ...

The use of Personal Mobile Terrestrial System (PMTS) has increased considerably for mobile mapping applications because these systems offer dynamic data acquisition with ground perspective in places where the use of wheeled ...