Ultra Wideband for Shipyard 5.0 Indoor Gantry Crane High-Precision Positioning

  1. Ángel Niebla Montero 1
  2. Paula Fraga Lamas 1
  3. José Varela Barbeito 1
  4. Tiago M. Fernández Caramés 1
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

Libro:
VI Congreso XoveTIC: impulsando el talento científico
  1. Manuel Lagos Rodríguez (ed. lit.)
  2. Álvaro Leitao Rodríguez (ed. lit.)
  3. Tirso Varela Rodeiro (ed. lit.)
  4. Javier Pereira Loureiro (coord.)
  5. Manuel Francisco González Penedo (coord.)

Editorial: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña

Ano de publicación: 2023

Congreso: XoveTIC (6. 2023. A Coruña)

Tipo: Achega congreso

Resumo

The shipyard of the future, called Shipyard 5.0, is a highly technological environment where real-time monitoring of products, by-products and transport vehicles is crucial. Among the technologies able to locate such elements indoors, Ultra Wideband (UWB) is a good option for providing accurate positioning. However, the use of UWB in shipyards faces challenges due to interference from metallic objects, which impacts its accuracy. To validate the use of UWB in a shipyard, this paper presents tests that were carried out in workshops that Navantia owns in Ferrol’s estuary, where UWB tags were placed on a gantry crane hook. The presented results show the performance of the system when locating the hook in 3D and the impact of attaching multiple tags to the hook to harness signal diversity. Specifically, a relatively lowerror is obtained when estimating only the height of the gantry crane hook (approximately 1 m), while the threedimensional positioning error reached an error of between 2 and 3m for the z-axis