Implementation of a ZigBee-based high performance sensor node for the robot environment platform

In this paper, a ZigBee-based wireless sensor network is configured for the robot to effectively communicate with the environment platform where each sensor node is implemented using a high performance microcontroller. The localization and the navigation functions are also required for the robot and the functions are executed with various types of sensor information. A new type of ZigBee stack is developed using the RUM(Router Under MAC) of the Atmel Corp. and it is applied to 32-bit ARM core microcontroller for the high performance sensor data manipulation and transmission. It is verified by experiments that the wireless sensor network consisting of developed high performance sensor nodes can be effectively used for the robot environment platform.

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