RFID-Guided Robots for Pervasive Automation

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2010-01-15Author
Deyle, Travis
Nguyen, Hai
Reynolds, Matt S.
Kemp, Charles C.
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Passive UHF RFID tags are well matched to robots' needs. Unlike lowfrequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) RFID tags, passive UHF RFID tags are readable from across a room, enabling a mobile robot to efficiently discover and locate them. Using tags' unique IDs, a semantic database, and RF perception via actuated antennas, this paper shows how a robot can reliably interact with people and manipulate labeled objects.