Abstract:The problem of relative localization of in-plane micorobot cluster was studied. According to the characteristics of the small size of microrobot, a simple relative positioning approach based on one infrared emitter, receiver and magnetoresistive sensor was presented. The error source of the relative positioning method was analyzed. The simulation and experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of this method. This method shows advantages of high accuracy and no accumulated error, and presents distributed, fast and extensible merits.