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We address the indoor localization problem, where the goal is to predict user's trajectory from the data collected by their smartphone, using inertial sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer, as well as other environment…

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Mobile robots have the capability to work in real-time autonomously. Autonomous behavior is strictly dependent on knowing the position of the mobile robot. The positioning of a mobile robot in an indoor area is a difficult task for only one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hikmet Yucel , Gulin Elibol , Ugur Yayan

With the recent development in mobile computing devices and as the ubiquitous deployment of access points(APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs), WLAN based indoor localization systems(WILSs) are of mounting concentration and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Caifa Zhou , Lin Ma , Xuezhi Tan

In this paper, we study a navigation problem where a mobile robot needs to locate a mmWave wireless signal. Using the directionality properties of the signal, we propose an estimation and path planning algorithm that can efficiently…

We develop novel methods for device-free localization (DFL) using transceivers in motion. Such localization technologies are useful in various cross-layer applications/protocols including those that are related to security situations where…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Peter Hillyard , Dustin Maas , Sriram Premnath , Neal Patwari , Sneha Kasera

Mobile applications are being developed for automated logging of contacts via Bluetooth to help scale up digital contact tracing efforts in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A useful component of such applications is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Lillian Clark , Alan Papalia , Jônata Tyska Carvalho , Luca Mastrostefano , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We study the estimation of distance d between two wireless nodes by means of their wideband channels to a third node, called observer. The motivating principle is that the channel impulse responses are similar for small d and drift apart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Gregor Dumphart , Marc Kuhn , Armin Wittneben , Florian Trösch

Drift-free localization is essential for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we address the problem by proposing a filter-based framework, which integrates the visual-inertial odometry and the measurements of the features in the pre-built…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhuqing Zhang , Yanmei Jiao , Shoudong Huang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We propose a low-complexity variable forgetting factor (VFF) mechanism for recursive least square (RLS) algorithms in interference suppression applications. The proposed VFF mechanism employs an updated component related to the time average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Yunlong Cai , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Robotic underwater systems, e.g., Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), are promising tools for collecting biogeochemical data at the ice-water interface for scientific advancements. However, state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Lin Zhao , Mingxi Zhou , Brice Loose

Indoor localization is critical for IoT applications, yet challenges such as non-Gaussian noise, environmental interference, and measurement outliers hinder the robustness of traditional methods. Existing approaches, including Kalman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhiyi Zhou , Dongzhuo Liu , Songtao Guo , Yuanyuan Yang

The wireless channel is undergoing continuous changes, and the block-fading assumption, despite its popularity in theoretical contexts, never holds true in practical scenarios. This discrepancy is particularly critical for user activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson

Achieving sub-10 m indoor ranging with LoRaWAN is challenging because multipath, human blockage, and micro-climate dynamics induce non-stationary attenuation in received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements. We present a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Nahshon Mokua Obiri , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Accurate, real-time wireless signal prediction is essential for next-generation networks. However, existing vision-based frameworks often rely on computationally intensive models and are also sensitive to environmental interference. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Sen Yan , Tianyu Hu , Brahim Mefgouda , Samson Lasaulce , Merouane Debbah

This paper presents adaptive link selection algorithms for distributed estimation and considers their application to wireless sensor networks and smart grids. In particular, exhaustive search--based least--mean--squares(LMS)/recursive least…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-20 S. Xu , R. C. de Lamare , H. V. Poor

Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) services in vehicular networks on millimeter-wave bands present a significant challenge, considering the necessity of constantly adjusting the beam directions. Conventional methods are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yan Liu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

A novel scenario-adapted distributed signaling technique in the context of opportunistic communications is presented in this work. Each opportunistic user acquires locally sampled observations from the wireless environment to determine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Jordi Borras , Gregori Vazquez

Received signal strength (RSS)-based wireless localization is easy to implement at low cost. In practice,exact positions of anchors may not be available. This paper focuses on determining the location of a source in the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Yang Liu , Guojun Han , Yonghua Wang , Zheng Xue , Jing Chen

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

Existing deep neural network (DNN) based wireless localization approaches typically do not capture uncertainty inherent in their estimates. In this work, we propose and evaluate variational and scalable DNN approaches to measure the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp