産業用地上ロボット向けの展開即応型UWB位置推定:自動アンカー校正と地形認識融合
Deployment-Ready UWB Localization for Industrial Ground Robots with Automatic Anchor Calibration and Terrain-Aware Fusion
UWB測位の実運用課題であるアンカー校正の手間とセンサ融合の設計を解決するため、自動校正とバイアス考慮の拡張カルマンフィルタを備えたパイプラインを提案し、倉庫内の物流AMRで精度と一貫性を実証した。
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著者: Alexander Raab, Giulio Delama, Roland Jung, Stephan Weiss
分類: cs.RO
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Ultra-Wideband (UWB) ranging has become a viable option for industrial Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) localization due to improved accuracy and low cost. However, real-world deployments remain limited by two recurring challenges: calibrating static anchors can be time-consuming and error-prone, and integrating UWB with existing onboard sensors requires careful design to ensure robust and consistent pose estimation. Addressing these challenges, this paper presents an end-to-end pipeline that combines automatic anchor calibration with a generic multi-sensor estimator tailored to surface-bound vehicle motion. It targets existing AMR stacks in scenarios where robot pose priors are available for initialization. The calibration stage estimates anchor positions and range biases, while the localization stage fuses UWB with proprioceptive sensing in a bias-aware Extended Kalman Filter to improve consistency without extensive parameter tuning. Experiments on a commercial logistics AMR in a warehouse setting demonstrate accurate positioning indoors and across outdoor transitions, with improved consistency compared to an earlier estimator formulation. Evaluation on an independent forklift dataset further indicates transferability to other platforms. The method remains effective in test cases with limited line-of-sight and sparse anchor coverage. These results show that UWB localization can be deployed with substantially reduced manual effort while preserving the accuracy required for industrial AMRs. The collected warehouse dataset is made publicly available.
