Localization of Indoor Mobile Robot Using Monte Carlo Localization Algorithm (MCL)

Abstract

One of the challenging issues in robotics is to give a mobile robot the ability to recognize its initial pose ( position and orientation) without any human help. In this paper, the components of a mobile robot will be described in addition to the specification of the sensor that will be used. Then, the map of the environment  will be defined since it is pre-defined and stored in the memory of the robot. After that, a localization algorithm has been designed, analysed and implemented to develop the ability of a mobile robot to  recognize its initial pose. Finally, the final results that have been taken practically will discussed. These result will be divided into two main sub-sections; the first section describes the particles distribution over the working environment and their position update over a number of iterations. Second section will shows the update in the importance weight values over a number of iterations and for three different number of particles.