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We study a stealthy range-sensor placement problem where a set of range sensors are to be placed with respect to targets to effectively localize them while maintaining a degree of stealthiness from the targets. This is an open and…
The sensor network localization, SNL, problem in embedding dimension r, consists of locating the positions of wireless sensors, given only the distances between sensors that are within radio range and the positions of a subset of the…
We consider a wireless source localization network in which a target node emits localization signals that are used by anchor nodes to estimate the target node position. In addition to target and anchor nodes, there can also exist…
Localization of networked nodes is an essential problem in emerging applications, including first-responder navigation, automated manufacturing lines, vehicular and drone navigation, asset navigation and tracking, Internet of Things and 5G…
Realizing relative localization by leveraging inter-robot local measurements is a challenging problem, especially in the presence of measurement noise. Motivated by this challenge, in this paper we propose a novel and systematic 3-D…
Localization of mobile nodes in a wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an active area of research. In this paper, we present a novel RSSI based localization algorithm for 802.15.4 (ZigBee) based WSNs. We propose and implement a novel range…
In robotic networks relying on noisy range measurements between agents for cooperative localization, the achievable positioning accuracy strongly strongly depends on the network geometry. This motivates the problem of planning robot…
We present a novel application of a recently-proposed matrix-parametrized proximal splitting method to sensor network localization, the problem of estimating the locations of a set of sensors using only noisy pairwise distance information…
In applications such as seismic acquisition, the position information of sensor nodes, that are deployed in a linear topology, is desired with sub-meter accuracy in the presence of a limited number of anchor nodes. This can be achieved with…
Location-aware networks are of great importance and interest in both civil and military applications. This paper determines the localization accuracy of an agent, which is equipped with an antenna array and localizes itself using wireless…
We are interested in assigning a pre-specified number of nodes as leaders in order to minimize the mean-square deviation from consensus in stochastically forced networks. This problem arises in several applications including control of…
This thesis studies range-based WSN localization problem in 3D environments that induce coplanarity. In most real-world applications, even though the environment is 3D, the grounded sensor nodes are usually deployed on 2D planar surfaces.…
Localization is one of the pivotal issues in wireless sensor network applications. In 3D localization studies, most algorithms focus on enhancing the location prediction process, lacking theoretical derivation of the detection distance of…
We study the problem of sensor placement in environments in which localization is a necessity, such as ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that allow the placement of a few anchors that know their location or sensor arrays that are tracking a…
Positioning systems in self-organizing networks generally rely on measurements such as delay and received signal strength, which may be difficult to obtain and often require dedicated equipment. An alternative to such approaches is to use…
In this article we analyze the state-of-the-art in multilateration - the family of localization methods enabled by the range difference observations. These methods are computationally efficient, signal-independent, and flexible with regards…
We propose an efficient solution to peer-to-peer localization in a wireless sensor network which works in two stages. At the first stage the optimization problem is relaxed into a convex problem, given in the form recently proposed by…
Localization is a fundamental task in robotics for autonomous navigation. Existing localization methods rely on a single input data modality or train several computational models to process different modalities. This leads to stringent…
We study the heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and propose the necessary condition of the optimal sensor deployment. Similar to that in homogeneous WSNs, the necessary condition implies that every sensor node location should…
In many hybrid wireless sensor networks' applications, sensor nodes are deployed in hostile environments where trusted and un-trusted nodes co-exist. In anchor-based hybrid networks, it becomes important to allow trusted nodes to gain full…