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Global localization is necessary for autonomous operations on the lunar surface where traditional Earth-based navigation infrastructure, such as GPS, is unavailable. As NASA advances toward sustained lunar presence under the Artemis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Annika Thomas , Robaire Galliath , Aleksander Garbuz , Luke Anger , Cormac O'Neill , Trevor Johst , Dami Thomas , George Lordos , Jonathan P. How

Accurately estimating vehicle velocity via smartphone is critical for mobile navigation and transportation. This paper introduces a cutting-edge framework for velocity estimation that incorporates temporal learning models, utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xuan Xiao , Xiaotong Ren , Haitao Li

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), as a fundamental technology of 6G, empowers Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems with enhanced sensing capabilities. One of its promising applications is the reliance on constructed maps for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Hanyuan Jiang , Yuxiang Zhang , Yameng Liu , Jianhua Zhang , Lei Tian , Tao Jiang

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Pervasive localization is essential for continuous tracking applications, yet existing solutions face challenges in balancing power consumption and accuracy. GPS, while precise, is impractical for continuous tracking of micro-assets due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Aritrik Ghosh , Nakul Garg , Nirupam Roy

Travel mode identification (TMI) from GPS trajectories is critical for urban intelligence, but is hampered by the high cost of annotation, leading to severe label scarcity. Prevailing semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods are ill-suited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Luyao Niu , Nuoxian Huang

Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important technique that lays the foundation for many common tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Maarten de Backer , Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Ralph Simon , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent prediction system for mobile source localization in industrial Internet of things. The position and velocity of mobile source are jointly predicted by using Time Delay (TD) measurements in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Hengnian Qi , Xiaoping Wu , Naixue Xiong

This paper presents Vision-Language Global Localization (VLG-Loc), a novel global localization method that uses human-readable labeled footprint maps containing only names and areas of distinctive visual landmarks in an environment. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mizuho Aoki , Kohei Honda , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Takeshi Ishita , Ryo Yonetani

The current optimization approaches of construction machinery are mainly based on internal sensors. However, the decision of a reasonable strategy is not only determined by its intrinsic signals, but also very strongly by environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yusheng Xiang , Dianzhao Li , Tianqing Su , Quan Zhou , Christine Brach , Samuel S. Mao , Marcus Geimer

Road traffic forecasting plays a critical role in smart city initiatives and has experienced significant advancements thanks to the power of deep learning in capturing non-linear patterns of traffic data. However, the promising results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xu Liu , Yutong Xia , Yuxuan Liang , Junfeng Hu , Yiwei Wang , Lei Bai , Chao Huang , Zhenguang Liu , Bryan Hooi , Roger Zimmermann

We present a method to improve the accuracy of a zero-velocity-aided inertial navigation system (INS) by replacing the standard zero-velocity detector with a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network. While existing threshold-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Brandon Wagstaff , Jonathan Kelly

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

Indoor localization has become increasingly important due to its wide-ranging applications in indoor navigation, emergency services, the Internet of Things (IoT), and accessibility for individuals with special needs. Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohamed I. Hany , Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

The rapid increase in utilization of smart home technologies has introduced new paradigms to ensure the security and privacy of inhabitants. In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect and localize physical intrusions in indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Usama Shakoor , Muhammad Bilal Janjua , Muhammad Sohaib J. Solaija , Huseyin Arslan

Thanks to rapid advances in technologies like GPS and Wi-Fi positioning, smartphone users are able to determine their location almost everywhere they go. This is not true, however, of people who are traveling in underground public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-04 T. Stockx , B. Hecht , J. Schöning

This paper introduces the use of static electromagnetic skins (EMSs) to enable robust device localization via channel charting (CC) in realistic urban environments. We develop a rigorous optimization framework that leverages EMS to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Mahdi Maleki , Reza Agahzadeh Ayoubi , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini

The paper develops DILOC, a \emph{distributive}, \emph{iterative} algorithm that locates M sensors in $\mathbb{R}^m, m\geq 1$, with respect to a minimal number of m+1 anchors with known locations. The sensors exchange data with their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-19 Usman A. Khan , Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura

Telecommunication (Telco) outdoor position recovery aims to localize outdoor mobile devices by leveraging measurement report (MR) data. Unfortunately, Telco position recovery requires sufficient amount of MR samples across different areas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Yige Zhang , Aaron Yi Ding , Jorg Ott , Mingxuan Yuan , Jia Zeng , Kun Zhang , Weixiong Rao

In this paper, a robust vehicle local position estimation with the help of single camera sensor and GPS is presented. A modified Inverse Perspective Mapping, illuminant Invariant techniques and object detection based approach is used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Mrinal Haloi , Dinesh Babu Jayagopi