A wireless navigation system with no external positions

Abstract

A wireless navigation system (WNS) is proposed that autonomously coordinates the motions of cooperating robots. The proposed WNS employs both Bluetooth technologies and wireless routing protocols that can discover routes around obstacles and other barriers to communications. A time-slotted, ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing (TAODV) protocol is designed to maintain secure, wireless communication links between cooperating robots that forms a wireless mobile ad hoc network (MANET). A practical application of the WNS is demonstrated as an example.