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Wireless indoor localization has attracted significant research interest due to its high accuracy, low cost, lightweight design, and low power consumption. Specifically, ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Mingliang Tang , Angela P. Schoellig

In this paper, a 2-stage robust distributed algorithm is proposed for cooperative sensor network localization using time of arrival (TOA) data without identification of non-line of sight (NLOS) links. In the first stage, to overcome the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

Recently, millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G localization has been shown to be to provide centimeter-level accuracy, lending itself to many location-aware applications, e.g., connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). One assumption usually made in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Zohair Abu-Shaban , Henk Wymeersch , Thushara Abhayapala , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

This paper presents an adaptive anchor pairs selection algorithm for UWB (ultra-wideband) TDOA-based (Time Difference of Arrival) indoor positioning systems. The method assumes dividing the system operation area into zones. The most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Marcin Kolakowski , Jozef Modelski

As the cost and technical difficulty of jamming devices continue to decrease, jamming has become one of the major threats to positioning service. Unfortunately, most conventional technologies are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Zijie Wang , Rongke Liu , Qirui Liu , Lincong Han

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 this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

This paper revisits the problem of locating a signal-emitting source from time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. Many currently fashionable methods for NLOS mitigation in TDOA-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So , Joan Bordoy , Andrea Gabbrielli , Junli Liang

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

In this paper, we propose a two-stage weighted projection method (TS-WPM) for time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA)-based localization, providing provable improvements in positioning accuracy, particularly under high geometric dilution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Harish K. Dureppagari , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Large-scale MIMO systems are well known for their advantages in communications, but they also have the potential for providing very accurate localization thanks to their high angular resolution. A difficult problem arising indoors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nil Garcia , Henk Wymeersch , Erik G. Larsson , Alexander M. Haimovich , Martial Coulon

The maximum likelihood (ML) estimator can be applied to localize a target mobile device using the RSS and TOA. However, the ML estimator for the RSS-TOA-based target localization problem is nonconvex and nonlinear, having no analytical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Halim Lee , Jiwon Seo

Current trends in autonomous vehicles and their applications indicates an increasing need in positioning at low battery and compute cost. Lidars provide accurate localization at the cost of high compute and power consumption which could be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Rakshit Ramesh , Aaron John-Sabu , Harshitha S , Siddarth Ramesh , Vishwas Navada B , Mukunth Arunachalam , Bharadwaj Amrutur

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments, terrestrial signals of opportunity (SoOP) offer an alternative for positioning, but synchronization impairments such as clock offsets, drift, and multipath limit performance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Mustafa Furkan Beker , Abdullah Tan , Khaled Walid Elgammal , Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir

Accurate indoor localization has long been a challenging problem due to the presence of multipath. Joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and time delay (TD) estimation is a promising technique for accurate indoor Localization in next generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fei Wen , Peilin Liu , Haichao Wei , Yi Zhang

The time of arrival (TOA)-based localization techniques, which need to estimate the delay of the line-of-sight (LoS) path, have been widely employed in location-aware networks. To achieve a high-accuracy delay estimation, a number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Yubo Wan , An Liu , Qiyu Hu , Mianyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

Onboard simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods are commonly used to provide accurate localization information for autonomous robots. However, the coordinate origin of SLAM estimate often resets for each run. On the other hand,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Tien-Dat Nguyen , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Vinh-Hao Nguyen

In this paper, we aim to determine the location information of a node deployed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). We estimate the position of an unknown source node using localization based on linear approach on a single simulation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-27 S Ravindra , S N Jagadeesha

Precise Time-of-Arrival (TOA) estimations of aircraft and drone signals are important for a wide set of applications including aircraft/drone tracking, air traffic data verification, or self-localization. Our focus in this work is on TOA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Roberto Calvo-Palomino , Fabio Ricciato , Blaz Repas , Domenico Giustiniano , Vincent Lenders

This paper presents a trustworthy framework for achieving accurate cooperative localization in multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. The The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the three-dimensional (3D) cooperative localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten