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In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. The objective function of the maximum likelihood (ML) method for two-way…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

In this paper, a positioning technique based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements is analyzed. The proposed approach is designed to consent range and position estimation, using ultrasound transmissions of a stream of chirp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-20 Alessio De Angelis , Antonio Moschitta , Antonella Comuniello

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

High time resolution of ultra wideband (UWB) signals facilitates very precise positioning capabilities based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Although the theoretical lower bound for TOA estimation can be achieved by the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sinan Gezici , Zafer Sahinoglu , Andreas F. Molisch , Hisashi Kobayashi , H. Vincent Poor

This paper revisits the problem of locating a signal-emitting source from time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. Many currently fashionable methods for NLOS mitigation in TDOA-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So , Joan Bordoy , Andrea Gabbrielli , Junli Liang

Emerging wireless applications are requiring ever more accurate location-positioning from sensor measurements. In this paper, we develop sensor selection strategies for 3D wireless positioning based on time of arrival (TOA) and received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Myeung Suk Oh , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , Christopher G. Brinton

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Given a network of receivers and transmitters, the process of determining their positions from measured pseudoranges is known as network self-calibration. In this paper we consider 2D networks with synchronized receivers but unsynchronized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Luca Ferranti , Kalle Åström , Magnus Oskarsson , Jani Boutellier , Juho Kannala

We investigate the problem of time-of-arrival (TOA) based localization under possible non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation conditions. To robustify the squared-range-based location estimator, we follow the maximum correntropy criterion,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So , Zhi Wang

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

Localization and synchronization are very important in many wireless applications such as monitoring and vehicle tracking. Utilizing the same time of arrival (TOA) measurements for simultaneous localization and synchronization is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Weijie Yuan , Nan Wu , Bernhard Etzlinger , Hua Wang , Jingming Kuang

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

This work performs the design, real-time hardware realization, and experimental evaluation of a positioning system by ultra-violet (UV) communication under photon-level signal detection. The positioning is based on time-difference of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Shihui Yu , Chubing Lv , Yueke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Lei Sun , Juliang Cao , Ruihang Yu , Chen Gong , Wenqi Wu , Zhengyuan Xu

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

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

In this paper, a 2-stage robust distributed algorithm is proposed for cooperative sensor network localization using time of arrival (TOA) data without identification of non-line of sight (NLOS) links. In the first stage, to overcome the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

In this paper, we consider a time-varying optimization approach to the problem of tracking a moving target using noisy time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Specifically, we formulate the problem as that of sequential TOA-based source…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

Wireless high-accuracy positioning has recently attracted growing research interest due to diversified nature of applications such as industrial asset tracking, autonomous driving, process automation, and many more. However, obtaining a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Anil Kirmaz , Taylan Şahin , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Wolfgang Gerstacker

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurrent TDOA measurements are infeasible because targets receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Chenxin Tu , Xiaowei Cui , Gang Liu , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu
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