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Many modern wireless devices with accurate positioning needs also have access to vision sensors, such as a camera, radar, and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). In scenarios where wireless-based positioning is either inaccurate or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Haozhou Hu , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

A network is called localizable if the positions of all the nodes of the network can be computed uniquely. If a network is localizable and embedded in plane with generic configuration, the positions of the nodes may be computed uniquely in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Buddhadeb Sau , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

We propose an algorithm for the Wireless Sensor Network localization problem, which is based on the well-known algorithmic framework of Alternating Minimization. We start with a non-smooth and non-convex minimization, and transform it into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Eyal Gur , Shoham Sabach , Shimrit Shtern

In this paper we describe three methods for localizing a wireless sensor network node, using anchor nodes in its neighbourhood, when there is an error in distance estimation present. We use the intersection points of the circles formed with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Marios Karagiannis , Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Jose Rolim

A fully-asynchronous network with one target sensor and a few anchors (nodes with known locations) is considered. Localization and synchronization are traditionally treated as two separate problems. In this paper, localization and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

In this paper, we propose a general graph optimization based framework for localization, which can accommodate different types of measurements with varying measurement time intervals. Special emphasis will be on range-based localization.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Xu Fang , Chen Wang , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Sensor nodes are low cost, low power devices that are used to collect physical data and monitor environmental conditions from remote locations. Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) are collection of sensor nodes, coordinating among themselves to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain

We consider the problem of localizing a target taking the help of a set of anchor beacon nodes.A small number of beacon nodes are deployed at known locations in the area.The target can detect a beacon provided it happens to lie within the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-20 S. N. Bharadwaj , S. N. Jagadeesha , S. Ravindra

Sensor nodes localization in wireless Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks is crucial for the effective operation of diverse applications, such as smart cities and smart agriculture. Existing sensor nodes localization approaches heavily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Ayesh Abu Lehyeh , Anastassia Gharib , Tian Xia , Dryver Huston , Safwan Wshah

Barycentric averaging is a principled way of summarizing populations of measures. Existing algorithms for estimating barycenters typically parametrize them as weighted sums of Diracs and optimize their weights and/or locations. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-16 Samuel Cohen , Michael Arbel , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Localization is one of the most important factor in wireless sensor networks as many applications demand position information of sensors. Recently there is an increasing interest on the use of mobile anchors for localizing sensors. Most of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Kaushik Mondal , Arindam Karmakar , Partha Sarathi Mandal

In this correspondence, we present an algorithm for distributed sensor localization with noisy distance measurements (DILAND) that extends and makes the DLRE more robust. DLRE is a distributed sensor localization algorithm in $\mathbb{R}^m$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Usman A. Khan , Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura

This paper presents a method to improve the localization accuracy of robots operating in a range-based localization network. The method is favorable especially when the robots operate in harsh environments where the access to a robust and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Saman Fahandezh-Saadi , Mark W. Mueller

Localization is a fundamental challenge for any wireless network of nodes, in particular when the nodes are mobile. We present an extension of the classical Multidimensional scaling (MDS) for an anchorless network of mobile nodes, wherein…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-15 Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The problem of computing a connected network with minimum interference is a fundamental problem in wireless sensor networks. Several models of interference have been studied in the literature. The most common model is the receiver-centric,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-21 A. Karim Abu-Affash , Paz Carmi , Matthew J. Katz

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming an important part of many applications. Knowing the exact location of each sensor in the network is very important issue. Therefore, the localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska , Vesna Kirandziska

In this paper, the problem of target localization in the presence of outlying sensors is tackled. This problem is important in practice because in many real-world applications the sensors might report irrelevant data unintentionally or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Mohsen Joneidi , Behzad Shahrasbi , Nazanin Rahnavard

We study the problem of high accuracy localization of mobile nodes in a multipath-rich environment where sub-meter accuracies are required. We employ a peer-to-peer framework where the vehicles/nodes can get pairwise multipath-degraded…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Venkatesan. N. Ekambaram , Kannan Ramchandran , Raja Sengupta

We study the problem of determining the configuration of $n$ points by using their distances to $m$ nodes, referred to as anchor nodes. One sampling scheme is Nystrom sampling, which assumes known distances between the anchors and between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Samuel Lichtenberg , Abiy Tasissa