A Probabilistic Approach to Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization
Autonomous Robots
LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
RFID middleware design: addressing application requirements and RFID constraints
Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies
LuxTrace: indoor positioning using building illumination
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Special Issue: Selected Papers of the ARCS06 Conference
Smart object reminders with RFID and mobile technologies
Mobile Information Systems
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We provide evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of a middleware architecture for mobile devices which employs dense distributions of small computerized entities for providing fault-tolerant location-aware services. We do so by describing exemplary implementations based on radio frequency identification (RFID) as an enabling technology. Firstly, we present prototypical implementations of the hardware abstraction layer and of selected core middleware services. The latter enable a mobile device to store and retrieve data and position information in physical places in a fault-tolerant manner, and to identify places based on a location abstraction which is robust against failure of individual tags. Secondly, we investigate the feasibility of some higher-level services and applications by developing and evaluating prototypical systems for tracing and tracking, self-positioning, and collaborative map-making.