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In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, terrestrial signals of opportunity (SoOP) offer an alternative for positioning, but synchronization impairments such as clock offsets, drift, and multipath limit performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Mustafa Furkan Beker , Abdullah Tan , Khaled Walid Elgammal , Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir

Despite their high accuracy, UWB-based localization systems suffer inaccuracies when deployed in industrial locations with many obstacles due to multipath effects and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. In such environments, current error…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Dieter Coppens , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter

This paper considers the problem of ground user localization based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We treat UAV-user link channel model parameters and antenna radiation pattern of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization using time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements under mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. A 3D TDOA Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Cole Dickerson , Saad Masrur , Jonah Dickerson , Özgür Özdemir , Ismail Güvenç

Fingerprint-based passive localization enables high localization accuracy using low-cost UWB IoT radio sensors. However, fingerprinting demands extensive effort for data acquisition. The concept of channel charting reduces this effort by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Raffael Poeggel , Maximilian Stahlke , Jonas Pirkl , Jonathan Ott , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

This paper presents a method for real-time estimation of 2-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) of one or more sound sources using a nonlinear array of three microphones. 2D-DOA is estimated employing frame-level time difference of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Anton Kovalyov , Kashyap Patel , Issa Panahi

Coordination of multi-robot systems require some form of localization between agents, but most methods today rely on some external infrastructure. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) sensing has gained popularity in relative localization applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Joseph Prince Mathew , Cameron Nowzari

In a time division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), a user device (UD) determines its position by obtaining sequential time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange measurements from signals broadcast by multiple synchronized base stations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

With the growing integration of location based services (LBS) such as GPS in mobile devices, indoor position systems (IPS) have become an important role for research. There are several IPS methods such as AOA, TOA, TDOA, which use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Erick Schmidt , David Akopian

Source localization plays a key role in many applications including radar, wireless and underwater communications. Among various localization methods, the most popular ones are Time-Of-Arrival (TOA), Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA), and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Nitesh Sahu , Linlong Wu , Prabhu Babu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

This paper presents the ultra-wideband (UWB) on-body radio channel modelling using a sub-band Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method and a model combining the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD) and ray tracing (RT). In the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Yan Zhao , Akram Alomainy , Yang Hao , Clive Parini

During this decade, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) brought an increasing interest in the industrial and research world. One of their applications is the indoor localization. The ranging, i.e. the distance evaluation mechanism between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Nezo Ibrahim Fofana , Adrien van den Bossche , Rejane Dalce , Thierry Val

Node-specific hardware biases represent significant error source in wireless Time of Arrival (ToA) and Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) positioning. While bias estimation and treatment are well-established in Global Navigation Satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Miquel Garcia-Fernandez

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Next big commercial applications of drones require to fly the drone beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS). This inevitable ability to fly BVLOS will also necessitate the ability to keep track of the drone's location, in order to ensure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Priyanka Sinha , Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc

Location-based services such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and indoor positioning require precise and scalable distance estimates. The bias and variance of range estimators inherently influence the resulting localization quality. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Patrick Rathje , Olaf Landsiedel

A bidirectional Ultra-Wideband (UWB) localization scheme is one of the three widely adopted design integration processes commonly used in time-based UWB positioning systems. The key property of bidirectional UWB localization is its ability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Cung Lian Sang , Michael Adams , Marc Hesse , Ulrich Rückert

This letter proposes an algebraic solution for the problem of 3-D source localization utilizing the minimum number of measurements, i.e., one Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and one Angle of Arrival (AOA) pair. The proposed method employs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mojtaba Amiri , Rouhollah Amiri

The high time resolution of ultra-wideband (UWB) signals facilitates very precise position estimation in many scenarios, which makes a variety applications possible. This paper reviews the problem of position estimation in UWB systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-18 S. Gezici , H. V. Poor

This paper considers target tracking based on a beacon signal's time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) to a group of cooperating sensors. The sensors receive a reflected signal from the target where the time-of-arrival (TOA) renders the distance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous