@InProceedings{ payne2006single-sensor-probabilistic-localization-on-the-seres, abstract = {This paper proposes a novel method for localizing a stationary infrared source of unknown orientation relative to a static docking sensor. This method uses elliptical approximations of likely positions of the infrared source and computes the intersections to find the most probable locations. It takes only a few samples to localize, is easily computed with inexpensive microcontrollers, and is robust to sensor noise. We then compare our approach with two other methods. The first uses a Bayesian filter across a map of discrete locations in the robot's operational workspace to determine the suspected source position. The second also uses a probability distribution map but uses the method described by Elfes in his paper on probabilistic sonar-based mapping and navigation [1]. We show that our approach localizes quickly with a single sensor and is no more computationally demanding than other methods. }, address = {Tokyo, Japan}, author = {Kenneth Payne and Jacob Everist and Feili Hou and Wei-Min Shen}, booktitle = {The 9th Intl.\ Conf.\ Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS-9)}, month = {March}, title = {Single-Sensor Probabilistic Localization on the {SeReS} Self-Reconfigurable Robot}, year = {2006} }