Development of autonomous features and indoor localization techniques for car-like mobile robots [Elektronische Ressource] / von Niramon Ruangpayoongsak
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMOUS FEATURES AND INDOOR LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR CAR-LIKE MOBILE ROBOTS Dem Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik der Universität Siegen zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.) genehmigte Dissertation von M.Sc. Niramon Ruangpayoongsak 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hubert Roth 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Schwarte Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Mayr Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 10.8.2006 urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-2447Acknowledgements I would gratefully like to thank my advisor Prof. Hubert Roth. I thank him for providing the long period funding from the DAAD and giving me the opportunity to work in a European commission project; Building Presence through Localization for Hybrid Telematic Systems (PeLoTe). Also, I thank him for giving me a chance to work on the new technology PMD camera and giving me the freedom to develop my own ideas. I am grateful for his support and for the discussions we had. I would like to thank my second supervisor Prof. Rudolf Schwarte for providing us the 16x16 pixel and the 48x64 pixel PMD camera. I thank him for his discussion, contribution and comments for this thesis. Also, I thank him for providing me funding during the last period of my dissertation work. I would like to thank Prof.