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Ultra-wideband technology has emerged in recent years as a robust solution for localization in GNSS denied environments. In particular, its high accuracy when compared to other wireless localization solutions is enabling a wider range of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Wang Shule , Carmen Martínez Almansa , Jorge Peña Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

This paper proposes an ultra-wideband (UWB) aided localization and mapping system that leverages on inertial sensor and depth camera. Inspired by the fact that visual odometry (VO) system, regardless of its accuracy in the short term, still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Chen Wang , Handuo Zhang , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Ultra-wideband (UWB) devices are widely used in indoor localization scenarios. Single-anchor UWB localization shows advantages because of its simple system setup compared to conventional two-way ranging (TWR) and trilateration localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Sitian Li , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

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

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

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

Precise localization and tracking of moving non-collaborative persons and objects using a network of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar nodes has been shown to represent a practical and effective approach. In UWB radar sensor networks (RSNs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 B. Yan , A. Giorgetti , E. Paolini

In this paper some new experimental results about the statistical characterization of the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) bias affecting time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation in ultrawideband (UWB) wireless localization systems are illustrated. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is emerging as a promising solution that can realize proximity services, such as UWB tagless gate (UTG), thanks to centimeter-level localization accuracy based on two different ranging methods such as downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Junyoung Choi , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Joohyun Lee

Significant progress has been made in ultrasonic guided wave (UGW) technology for pipe signal processing and defect imaging recently. However, developing a defect localization and imaging algorithm that requires fewer parameters, offers a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Shuangshuang Li , Kai Zhao

Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging has emerged as a key radio technology for robot positioning and relative localization in multi-robot systems. Multiple works are now advancing towards more scalable systems, but challenges still remain. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Paola Torrico Morón , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Accurate localization and tracking are a fundamental requirement for robotic applications. Localization systems like GPS, optical tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are used for daily life activities, research, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yanjun Cao , Chenhao Yang , Rui Li , Alois Knoll , Giovanni Beltrame

Due to the high mobility and easy deployment, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted much attention in the field of wireless communication and positioning. To meet the challenges of lack of infrastructure coverage, uncertain sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Mingyue Zhu , Zhiqing Wei , Chen Qiu , Wangjun Jiang , Huici Wu , Zhiying Feng

Source localization is of pivotal importance in several areas such as wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT), where the location information can be used for a variety of purposes, e.g. surveillance, monitoring, tracking, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-16 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Arie Koppelaar , Sonia Heemstra de Groot

It has been shown that with the use of ultra-wideband (UWB) electromagnetic signal and time of arrival (ToA) principle, it is possible to locate medical implants given the permittivity distribution of the body. We propose a new imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Tao Feng

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has become very popular for indoor positioning and distance estimation (DE) systems due to its decimeter-level accuracy achieved when using time-of-flight-based techniques. Techniques for DE relying on signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Leo Botler , Konrad Diwold , Kay Römer

Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) is widely used in wireless localization systems. Among the enormous approaches of TDOA, high resolution TDOA algorithms have drawn much attention for its ability to resolve closely spaced signal delays in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hailong Shi , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

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

Time difference of arrival (TDOA) is a widely used technique for localizing a radio transmitter from the difference in signal arrival times at multiple receivers. For TDOA to work, the individual receivers must estimate the respective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-06 Shree Prasad M. , Trilochan Panigrahi , Mahbub Hassan , Ming Ding

In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position and timing information by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. Compared with the one-way TOA technique, the two-way…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu