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This paper demonstrates a system comprised of infrared beacons and a camera equipped with an optical band-pass filter. Our system can reliably detect and identify individual beacons at 100m distance regardless of lighting conditions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Alexandru Kampmann , Michael Lamberti , Nikola Petrovic , Stefan Kowalewski , Bassam Alrifaee

Indoor positioning using UWB technology has gained interest due to its centimeter-level accuracy potential. However, multipath effects and non-line-of-sight conditions cause ranging errors between anchors and tags. Existing approaches for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Dieter Coppens , Ben Van Herbruggen , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter

Quadruped robots are currently a widespread platform for robotics research, thanks to powerful Reinforcement Learning controllers and the availability of cheap and robust commercial platforms. However, to broaden the adoption of the…

In daily life, mobile and wearable devices with high computing power, together with anchors deployed in indoor environments, form a common solution for the increasing demands for indoor location-based services. Within the technologies and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Pavel Pascacio , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Sven Casteleyn , Elena Simona Lohan

Ultra-wideband (UWB) time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA)-based localization has emerged as a promising, low-cost, and scalable indoor localization solution, which is especially suited for multi-robot applications. However, there is a lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Xinyuan Qiao , Angela P. Schoellig

Due to its high delay resolution, the ultra-wideband (UWB) technique has been widely adopted for fine-grained indoor localization. Instead of active positioning, UWB radar-based passive human tracking is explored using commercial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Chenglong Li , Emmeric Tanghe , Jaron Fontaine , Luc Martens , Jac Romme , Gaurav Singh , Eli De Poorter , Wout Joseph

Precise indoor localization is an increasingly demanding requirement for various emerging applications, like Virtual/Augmented reality and personalized advertising. Current indoor environments are equipped with pluralities of WiFi access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Chenlu Xiang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Xiaojing Chen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Vincent K. N. Lau

UWB has recently gained new attention as an auxiliary sensor in the field of robot localization due to its compactness and ease of distance measurement. Consequently, various UWB-related localization and dataset research have increased.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jun Hyeok Choe , Inwook Shim

The ubiquitous presence of WiFi access points and mobile devices capable of measuring WiFi signal strengths allow for real-world applications in indoor localization and mapping. In particular, no additional infrastructure is required.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Bastian Schaefermeier , Gerd Stumme , Tom Hanika

Tracking movement of mobile nodes has received significant scientific and commercial interest, but long term tracking of resource-constrained mobile nodes remains challenging due to the high energy consumption of satellite receivers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Vikram Kumar , Neil W. Bergmann , Izanoordina , Raja Jurdak , Branislav Kusy

Motivated by lunar exploration, we consider deploying a network of mobile robots to explore an unknown environment while acting as a cooperative positioning system. Robots measure and communicate position-related data in order to perform…

A key limitation of current multi-robot systems is a lack of relative localization, particularly in environments without GPS or motion capture systems. This article presents a centralized method for relatively localizing a 2D swarm using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Ian Miller , Jon Wallace

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization has recently emerged as a promising indoor positioning solution. However, in cluttered environments, both the UWB radio positions and the obstacle-induced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Angela P. Schoellig

In recent years, UWB has garnered widespread attention in academia and industry due to its low power consumption, wide bandwidth, and high time resolution characteristics. This paper introduces the design of an asynchronous IR-UWB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Fan Liu , Bofeng Zheng , Tingting Zhang , Qinyu Zhang

We implemented a system able to locate people indoor, with the purpose of providing assistive services. Such approach is particularly important for the Art, for providing information on exhibitions, art galleries and museums, and to allow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Osvaldo Gervasi , Martina Fortunelli , Riccardo Magni , Damiano Perri , Marco Simonetti

The accuracy, resilience, and affordability of localisation are fundamental to autonomous robotic inspection within aircraft maintenance and overhaul (MRO) hangars. Hangars typically feature tall ceilings and are often made of materials…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Angelos Plastropoulos , Nicolas P. Avdelidis , Argyrios Zolotas

One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Obaid ur Rehman , Nadeem Javaid , Ayesha Bibi , Zahoor Ali Khan

The future of location-aided applications is shaped by the ubiquity of Internet-of-Things devices. As an increasing amount of commercial off-the-shelf radio devices support channel response collection, it is possible to achieve fine-grained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Chenglong Li , Emmeric Tanghe , Sofie Pollin , Wout Joseph

Smart and unobtrusive mobile sensor nodes that accurately track their own position have the potential to augment data collection with location-based functions. To attain this vision of unobtrusiveness, the sensor nodes must have a compact…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Philipp Mayer , Michele Magno , Luca Benini