Author(s)

Xiangyun Cai, Jiaqi Tan, Zhirong Lu

Corresponding Author

Xiangyun Cai

Abstract

With the continuous development of science and technology, robots are widely used in all walks of life, including industrial manufacturing, social services, and daily life. Multi-mobile robot positioning technology and path planning and design are extremely challenging issues in the field of robotics research, which is also the core content of robot navigation. WIFI-based positioning technology has the advantages of low deployment cost, high positioning accuracy and easy expansion. Through the positioning of multiple mobile robots and the joint display of multiple positions, it can achieve complete planning and management of the area. The task of path planning for multi-mobile robots is to find an optimal path from the starting point to the target point for each mobile robot in the environment with obstacles, according to certain evaluation criteria, and at the same time, to ensure that there is no collision between mobile robots and obstacles or between robots. Different application fields provide broad space for the development of robot technology, and also put forward many challenges and research directions. In this paper, the positioning technology and path planning design of multi-mobile robots in WIFI positioning environment are discussed and studied. At present, WIFI wireless communication technology has been widely popularized, and the robot can directly use the existing WIFI signal in the environment to complete the positioning, so it provides the possibility for the mobile robot to achieve low-cost and high-precision positioning and navigation.

Keywords

WiFi Positioning; Multiple mobile robots; Location and path planning