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The techniques that rely on estimating the distance using samples of the received signal strength usually assume prior knowledge of the signal propagation characteristics of the indoor environment in hand and tend to take a relatively large number of uniformly distributed random samples. This paper presents an efficient and practical collaborative approach to detect the location of an access point in an indoor environment without any prior knowledge of the environment. The proposed approach comprises a swarm of wirelessly connected mobile robots that collaboratively and autonomously collect a relatively small number of non-uniformly distributed random samples of the access point\u2019s received signal strength. These samples are used to efficiently and accurately estimate the location of the access point. The experimental testing verified that the proposed approach can identify the location of the access point in an accurate and efficient manner.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18020407","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,1,31]],"date-time":"2018-01-31T05:51:17Z","timestamp":1517377877000},"page":"407","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Collaborative Indoor Access Point Localization Using Autonomous Mobile Robot Swarm"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Fahed","family":"Awad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Network Engineering and Security, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan"}]},{"given":"Muhammad","family":"Naserllah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Network Engineering and Security, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. 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