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Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has shown remarkable potential as a low-cost general solution for robot localization. However, limitations of the UWB signal for precise positioning arise from the disturbances caused by the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umberto Albertin , Mauro Martini , Alessandro Navone , Marcello Chiaberge

With robots increasingly integrating into human environments, understanding and predicting human motion is essential for safe and efficient interactions. Modern human motion and activity prediction approaches require high quality and…

This paper presents an infrastructure-free approach for obstacle detection and environmental mapping using ultra-wideband (UWB) radar mounted on a mobile robotic platform. Traditional sensing modalities such as visual cameras and Light…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Adelina Giurea , Stijn Luchie , Dieter Coppens , Jeroen Hoebeke , Eli De Poorter

This paper proposes an ultra-wideband (UWB) aided localization and mapping system that leverages on inertial sensor and depth camera. Inspired by the fact that visual odometry (VO) system, regardless of its accuracy in the short term, still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Chen Wang , Handuo Zhang , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Fingerprint-based passive localization enables high localization accuracy using low-cost UWB IoT radio sensors. However, fingerprinting demands extensive effort for data acquisition. The concept of channel charting reduces this effort by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Raffael Poeggel , Maximilian Stahlke , Jonas Pirkl , Jonathan Ott , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Christopher Mutschler

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

Track-before-detect (TBD) is a powerful approach that consists in providing the tracker with sensor measurements directly without pre-detection. Due to the measurement model non-linearities, online state estimation in TBD is most commonly…

mmWave radars have recently gathered significant attention as a means to track human movement within indoor environments. Widely adopted Kalman filter tracking methods experience performance degradation when the underlying movement is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in 6G wireless networks offers unprecedented control over communication environments. However, identifying optimal configurations within practical constraints remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Kevin Weinberger , Simon Tewes , Aydin Sezgin

Two challenges for rescue robots are to detect human beings and to have an accurate positioning system. In indoor positioning, GPS receivers cannot be used due to the reflections or attenuation caused by obstacles. To detect human beings,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-17 David Espès , Ana Maria Pistea , Charles Canaff , Ioana Iordache , Philippe Le Parc , Emanuel Radoi

Accurate indoor localization is a crucial enabling technology for many robotics applications, from warehouse management to monitoring tasks. Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization is a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Wenda Zhao , Jacopo Panerati , Angela P. Schoellig

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

Robust and accurate tracking and localization of road users like pedestrians and cyclists is crucial to ensure safe and effective navigation of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), particularly so in urban driving scenarios with complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jia Huang , Alvika Gautam , Junghun Choi , Srikanth Saripalli

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

Our paper presents a robust framework for UWB-based static gesture recognition, leveraging proprietary UWB radar sensor technology. Extensive data collection efforts were undertaken to compile datasets containing five commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Abhishek Sebastian , Pragna R

This study proposes a personal identification technique that applies machine learning with a two-layered convolutional neural network to spectrogram images obtained from radar echoes of a target person in motion. The walking and sitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Takuya Sakamoto

Millimeter-accuracy Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning systems using the Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm are able to be utilized in military and many other important applications. Previous research on UWB positioning system has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Sheng Jiang , Matthew Trinkle , Hongyuan Wang

In this paper, we investigate ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and tracking in cluttered environments. Instead of mitigating the multipath, we exploit the specular reflections to enhance the localizability and improve the positioning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Chenglong Li , Zukun Lu , Long Huang , Shaojie Ni , Guangfu Sun , Emmeric Tanghe , Wout Joseph

We present a tracking system for relative positioning that can operate on entirely moving tracking nodes without the need for stationary anchors. Each node embeds a 9-DOF magnetic and inertial measurement unit and a single-antenna…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Rayan Armani , Christian Holz

Accurate and robust positioning in multipath environments can enable many applications, such as search-and-rescue and asset tracking. For this problem, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology can provide the most accurate range estimates, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson , Javier Ferrer-Coll , Peter Stenumgaard