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Indoor localization systems that are accurate and robust with respect to propagation channel conditions are still a technical challenge today. In particular, for systems based on range measurements from radio signals, non-line-of-sight…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Paul Meissner , Erik Leitinger , Markus Fröhle , Klaus Witrisal

The sparsity and the severe attenuation of millimeter-wave (mmWave) channel imply that highly directional communication is needed. The narrow beam produced by large array requires accurate alignment, which is difficult to achieve when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Yu Liu , Jiahui Li , Xiujun Zhang , Shidong Zhou

We present a range-based solution for indoor relative localization by Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), achieving sufficient accuracy for leader-follower flight. Moving forward from previous work, we removed the dependency on a common heading…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Steven van der Helm , Kimberly N. McGuire , Mario Coppola , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Provisioning of high throughput millimetre-wave signal to indoor areas that potentially serve a large number of users, such as transportation hubs or convention centres, will require dedicated indoor millimetre-wave access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Fadhil Firyaguna , Jacek Kibilda , Carlo Galiotto , Nicola Marchetti

Two core competencies of a mobile robot are to build a map of the environment and to estimate its own pose on the basis of this map and incoming sensor readings. To account for the uncertainties in this process, one typically employs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Alexander Schaefer , Lukas Luft , Wolfram Burgard

While initial beam alignment (BA) in millimeter-wave networks has been thoroughly investigated, most research assumes a simplified terminal model based on uniform linear/planar arrays with isotropic antennas. Devices with non-isotropic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Sajad Rezaie , João Morais , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Carles Navarro Manchón

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yanjun Han , Yuan Shen , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Moe Z. Win , Huadong Meng

Millimeter wave provides a promising approach for meeting the ever-growing traffic demand in next generation wireless networks. It is crucial to obtain relatively accurate channel state information so that beamforming/combining can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Chuang Zhang , Dongning Guo , Pingyi Fan

We consider the problem of estimating the 3D orientation of a user, using the downlink mmWave signals received from multiple base stations. We show that the received signals from several base stations, having known positions, can be used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Mohammad A. Nazari , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Pontus Johannisson , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we investigate the problem of beam alignment in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, and design an optimal algorithm to reduce the overhead. Specifically, due to directional communications, the transmitter and receiver beams…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Morteza Hashemi , Ashutosh Sabharwal , C. Emre Koksal , Ness B. Shroff

In this paper, millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless channel characteristics (Doppler spread and path loss modeling) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) assisted communication is analyzed and studied by emulating the real UAV motion using a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Amit Kachroo , Collin A. Thornton , Md Arifur Rahman Sarker , Wooyeol Choi , He Bai , Ickhyun Song , John O'Hara , Sabit Ekin

Ray-tracing (RT) simulators are essential for wireless digital twins, enabling accurate site-specific radio channel prediction for next-generation wireless systems. Yet, RT simulation accuracy is often limited by insufficient measurement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Mingjun Ying , Dipankar Shakya , Peijie Ma , Guanyue Qian , Theodore S. Rappaport

Site-specific wireless channel simulations via ray tracers can be used to effectively study wireless, decreasing the need for extensive site-specific radio propagation measurements. To ensure that ray tracer simulations faithfully reproduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 O. Kanhere , H. Poddar , T. S. Rappaport

Accurate motion capture of aerial robots in 3-D is a key enabler for autonomous operation in indoor environments such as warehouses or factories, as well as driving forward research in these areas. The most commonly used solutions at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Bing Wang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Localization, or position fixing, is an important problem in robotics research. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for long-term localization in a changing environment using 3D LiDAR. We first create the map of a real environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yilong Zhu , Bohuan Xue , Linwei Zheng , Huaiyang Huang , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

Angle of arrival (AOA) is widely used to locate a wireless signal emitter in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization. Compared with received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (TOA), it has higher accuracy and is not sensitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Baihua Shi , Yifan Li , Guilu Wu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu

In future air-to-ground integrated networks, the scattering effects from ground-based scatterers, such as buildings, cannot be neglected in millimeter-wave and higher frequency bands, and have a significant impact on channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Yulu Guo , Tongjia Zhang , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao , Ruifeng Gao

Millimeter-wave and terahertz systems rely on beamforming/combining codebooks to determine the best beam directions during the initial access and data transmission. Existing approaches suffer from large codebook sizes and high beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Sara Khosravi , Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Jens Zander , Marina Petrova

5G millimeter wave (mmWave) signals can enable accurate positioning in vehicular networks when the base station and vehicles are equipped with large antenna arrays. However, radio-based positioning suffers from multipath signals generated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Hyowon Kim , Karl Granström , Lin Gao , Giorgio Battistelli , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch

Millimeter-wave will be a key technology in next-generation wireless networks thanks to abundant bandwidth availability. However, the use of large antenna arrays with beamforming demands precise beam-alignment between transmitter and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Muddassar Hussain , Nicolo Michelusi