Graph-SLAM Approach for Indoor UAV Localization in Warehouse Logistics Applications

In the context of Industry 4.0, warehouses are transforming and new solutions are allowing more warehouse tasks to be executed in autonomous ways. The use of robots is a great advantage and a great addition to the autonomy of such structures since they can help with the automatic cyclic counting of...

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Autor principal: Antunes, José Filipe da Silva Oliveira (author)
Formato: masterThesis
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2021
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/20078
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/20078
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Resumo:In the context of Industry 4.0, warehouses are transforming and new solutions are allowing more warehouse tasks to be executed in autonomous ways. The use of robots is a great advantage and a great addition to the autonomy of such structures since they can help with the automatic cyclic counting of the inventory, the localization of hard-to-find items, and the access to narrow or high storage areas. In this context, the usage of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) becomes a requirement in this type of operations. Nevertheless, using this type of robots inside a warehouse comes with great engineering challenges such as indoor autonomous localization and navigation, collision avoidance, and automated UAV fleet management. Therefore, this thesis addresses the development of a localization framework based in Graph-SLAM that is capable of calculating the real-time position and orientation of a commercial UAV in warehouse scenarios.