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One of the bottlenecks in the development of successful collaborative robotics is an enabling localization technology that allows us to quickly and accurately localize neighbor robots. Prior approaches typically rely either on global information provided by GPS, beacons and landmarks, or on complex local information provided by vision systems. In the first part of this chapter we describe in detail how we designed and built our two-dimensional localization hardware module for multi-robot localization, which is fully distributed, inexpensive, and scalable. Our I2C-based Maxelbot robot platform, used to test this localization module, is then presented, together with other I2C hardware modules, that augment the capabilities of this robot platform.
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Maxim, P.M. (2011). What Is a Maxelbot?. In: Spears, W., Spears, D. (eds) Physicomimetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22804-9_10
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