5th International ICST Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE

Research Article

Evaluating the Impact of the Number of Access Points in Mobile Robots Localization Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/2016551.2016561,
        author={J\^{o} Ueyama and Gustavo Pessin and Fernando Os\^{o}rio and Jefferson Souza and Denis Wolf and Torsten Braun and Patr\^{\i}cia Vargas},
        title={Evaluating the Impact of the Number of Access Points in Mobile Robots Localization Using Artificial Neural Networks},
        proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={wireless networks mobile robot localization artificial neural networks},
        doi={10.1145/2016551.2016561}
    }
    
  • Jó Ueyama
    Gustavo Pessin
    Fernando Osório
    Jefferson Souza
    Denis Wolf
    Torsten Braun
    Patrícia Vargas
    Year: 2012
    Evaluating the Impact of the Number of Access Points in Mobile Robots Localization Using Artificial Neural Networks
    COMSWARE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/2016551.2016561
Jó Ueyama, Gustavo Pessin1,*, Fernando Osório1, Jefferson Souza1, Denis Wolf1, Torsten Braun2, Patrícia Vargas3
  • 1: University of São Paulo
  • 2: University of Bern
  • 3: Heriot-Watt University
*Contact email: pessin@icmc.usp.br

Abstract

In this paper we evaluate the impact of the number of Access Points in mobile nodes localization using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). We use three to eight APs as a source signal and show how the ANNs learn and generalize the data. Added to this, we evaluate the robustness of the ANNs and evaluate a heuristic to try to decrease the error in the localization. In order to validate our approach several ANNs topologies have been evaluated in experimental tests that were conducted with a mobile node in an indoor space.