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While UWB-based methods can achieve high localization accuracy in small-scale areas, their accuracy and reliability are significantly challenged in large-scale environments. In this paper, we propose a learning-based framework named ULOC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Yizhuo Yang , Tien-Dat Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

The combination of ultrawideband (UWB) radios and inertial measurement units (IMU) can provide accurate positioning in environments where the Global Positioning System (GPS) service is either unavailable or has unsatisfactory performance.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Abhishek Goudar , Angela P. Schoellig

A robust and accurate positioning solution is required to increase the safety in GPS-denied environments. Although there is a lot of available research in this area, little has been done for confined environments such as tunnels. Therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Vladimir Savic , Javier Ferrer-Coll , Per Angskog , Jose Chilo , Peter Stenumgaard , Erik G. Larsson

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology has seen an increased penetration in the robotics field as a robust localization method in recent years. UWB enables high accuracy distance estimation from time-of-flight measurements of wireless…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Carmen Martínez Almansa , Wang Shule , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Localization of objects is vital for robot-object interaction. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) application in robotics is an emerging and widely used object localization technique due to its accurate distance measurement, long-range,…

Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular as a means of inter-robot ranging and communication. A major constraint associated with UWB is that only one pair of UWB transceivers can range at a time to avoid interference,…

Precise indoor localization of moving targets is a challenging activity which cannot be easily accomplished without combining different sources of information. In this sense, the combination of different data sources with an appropriate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Alberto Savioli , Emanuele Goldoni , Pietro Savazzi , Paolo Gamba

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a promising technology for indoor position estimation for various localization applications of object swarms, such as in 3D analysis of human movement with multiple on-body sensors or a swarm of drones in an indoor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Vinish Yogesh , Bert-Jan van Beijnum , Jaap H. Buurke , Chris T. M. Baten

Autonomously retracing a manually-taught path is desirable for many applications, and Teach and Repeat (T&R) algorithms present an approach that is suitable for long-range autonomy. In this paper, ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging-based T&R is…

Accurate wireless timing synchronization has been an extremely important topic in wireless sensor networks, required in applications ranging from distributed beam forming to precision localization and navigation. However, it is very…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Marcelo Segura , S. Niranjayan , Hossein Hashemi , Andreas F. Molisch

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is an emerging low-cost solution for localization in a generic environment. However, UWB signal can be affected by signal reflections and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions between anchors; hence, in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Umberto Albertin , Alessandro Navone , Mauro Martini , Marcello Chiaberge

Navigation in an unknown environment without any preexisting positioning infrastructure has always been hard for mobile robots. This paper presents a self-deployable ultra wideband UWB infrastructure by mobile agents, that permits a dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Luca Santoro , Davide Brunelli , Daniele Fontanelli

Ultra-wideband (UWB) has shown promising potential in GPS-denied localization thanks to its lightweight and drift-free characteristics, while the accuracy is limited in real scenarios due to its sensitivity to sensor arrangement and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Si Wang , Bingqi Shen , Fei Wang , Yanjun Cao , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Localization is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current location of the sensor odes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation of GPS on each sensor node expensive and moreover GPS may not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Jeril Kuriakose , Sandeep Joshi , V. I. George

Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization methods have emerged as a cost-effective and accurate solution for GNSS-denied environments. There is a significant amount of previous research in terms of resilience of UWB ranging, with non-line-of-sight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Sahar Salimpour , Paola Torrico Morón , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Peña Queralta

Relative localization between autonomous robots without infrastructure is crucial to achieve their navigation, path planning, and formation in many applications, such as emergency response, where acquiring a prior knowledge of the…

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

The following paper presents an adaptive anchor pairs selection method for ultra-wideband (UWB) Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) based positioning systems. The method divides the area covered by the system into several zones and assigns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Marcin Kolakowski

Time-of-flight, i.e., the time incurred by a signal to travel from transmitter to receiver, is perhaps the most intuitive way to measure distances using wireless signals. It is used in major positioning systems such as GPS, RADAR, and…

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