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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,…

Cooperative map matching (CMM) uses the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning of a group of vehicles to improve the standalone localization accuracy. It has been shown to reduce GNSS error from several meters to sub-meter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Macheng Shen , Jing Sun , Ding Zhao

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular for indoor localization, where range measurements are obtained by measuring the time-of-flight of radio signals. However, the range measurements typically suffer from a…

Collaborative object localization aims to collaboratively estimate locations of objects observed from multiple views or perspectives, which is a critical ability for multi-agent systems such as connected vehicles. To enable collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Peng Gao , Rui Guo , Hongsheng Lu , Hao Zhang

Absolute positioning of vehicles is based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) combined with on-board sensors and high-resolution maps. In Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS), the positioning performance can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Gloria Soatti , Monica Nicoli , Nil Garcia , Benoit Denis , Ronald Raulefs , Henk Wymeersch

This paper proposes a cooperative integrated estimation-guidance framework for simultaneous interception of a non-maneuvering target using a team of unmanned autonomous vehicles, assuming only a subset of vehicles are equipped with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Lohitvel Gopikannan , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

Coherent multistatic radio imaging represents a pivotal opportunity for forthcoming wireless networks, which involves distributed nodes cooperating to achieve accurate sensing resolution and robustness. This paper delves into cooperative…

This article considers a cooperative vehicle routing problem for an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission in the presence of communication constraints between the vehicles. The proposed framework uses a ground vehicle and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Satyanarayana G. Manyam , Kaarthik Sundar , David W. Casbeer

This paper addresses vehicle positioning, a topic whose importance has risen dramatically in the context of future autonomous driving systems. While classical methods that use GPS and/or beacon signals from network infrastructure for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Xinghe Chu , Zhaoming Lu , David Gesbert , Luhan Wang , Xiangming Wen

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

Accurate vehicle localization is indispensable to autonomous vehicles, but is difficult to realize in complicated application scenarios. Intersection scenarios that suffer from environmental shielding and crowded dynamic objects are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hao Li , Bo Liu , Linbin Wang

Localization plays a critical role in the field of distributed swarm robotics. Previous work has highlighted the potential of relative localization for position tracking in multi-robot systems. Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology provides a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Salma Ichekhlef , Étienne Villemure , Shokoufeh Naderi , François Ferland , Maude Blondin

This paper presents the development of a system able to estimate the 2D relative position of nodes in a wireless network, based on distance measurements between the nodes. The system uses ultra wide band ranging technology and the Bluetooth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Valerio Brunacci , Alessio De Angelis , Gabriele Costante

In this paper, we proposed the Interpenetrating Cooperative Localization (ICL) method to enhance the localization accuracy in dynamic connected vehicle networks. This mechanism makes the information from one group of connected vehicles…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Huajing Zhao , Zhaobin Mo , Macheng Shen , Jing Sun , Ding Zhao

Accurate vehicle localization is a critical challenge in urban environments where GPS signals are often unreliable. This paper presents a cooperative multi-sensor and multi-modal localization approach to address this issue by fusing data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Kuo-Yi Chao , Ralph Rasshofer , Alois Christian Knoll

Accurate vehicle localization is a crucial step towards building effective Vehicle-to-Vehicle networks and automotive applications. Yet standard grade GPS data, such as that provided by mobile phones, is often noisy and exhibits significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Eli Brosh , Matan Friedmann , Ilan Kadar , Lev Yitzhak Lavy , Elad Levi , Shmuel Rippa , Yair Lempert , Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz , Roei Herzig , Trevor Darrell

High-accurate localization is crucial for the safety and reliability of autonomous driving, especially for the information fusion of collective perception that aims to further improve road safety by sharing information in a communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yunshuang Yuan , Monika Sester

Wireless localization is a key requirement for many applications. It concerns position estimation of mobile nodes (agents) relative to fixed nodes (anchors) from wireless channel measurements. Cooperative localization is an advanced concept…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Henry Schulten , Gregor Dumphart , Antonios Koskinas , Armin Wittneben

Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning has emerged as a low-cost and dependable localization solution for multiple use cases, from mobile robots to asset tracking within the Industrial IoT. The technology is mature and the scientific literature…

Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue operations, to name a few. To this end, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Cristina M. Pinotti , Simone Silvestri , Sajal K. Das