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Driven by applications like Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), driver-less cars, etc, localization solution has become an active research topic in the past decade. In recent years, Ultra Wideband (UWB) emerged as a promising technology because…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Jiaxin Li , Yingcai Bi , Kun Li , Kangli Wang , Feng Lin , Ben M. Chen

Localization of robots is vital for navigation and path planning, such as in cases where a map of the environment is needed. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) for indoor location systems has been gaining popularity over the years with the introduction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Muhammad Shalihan , Ran Liu , Chau Yuen

Indoor autonomous navigation requires a precise and accurate localization system able to guide robots through cluttered, unstructured and dynamic environments. Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, as an indoor positioning system, offers precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Enrico Sutera , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

This paper presents a high-precision positioning system that integrates ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDoA) measurements, inertial measurement unit (IMU) data, and ultrasonic sensors through factor graph optimization. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Fengyun Zhang , Jia Li , Xiaoqing Zhang , Shukai Duan , Shuang-Hua Yang

Localization accuracy is of paramount importance for the proper operation of underwater optical wireless sensor networks (UOWSNs). However, underwater localization is prone to hostile environmental impediments such as drifts due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Nasir Saeed , Abdulkadir Celik , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

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

Precise and accurate localization in outdoor and indoor environments is a challenging problem that currently constitutes a significant limitation for several practical applications. Ultra-wideband (UWB) localization technology represents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Vittorio Mazzia , Giovanni Fantin , Dario Gandini , Marcello Chiaberge

Precise localization and tracking of moving non-collaborative persons and objects using a network of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar nodes has been shown to represent a practical and effective approach. In UWB radar sensor networks (RSNs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 B. Yan , A. Giorgetti , E. Paolini

Relative localization (RL) is essential for the successful operation of micro air vehicle (MAV) swarms. Achieving accurate 3-D RL in infrastructure-free and GPS-denied environments with only distance information is a challenging problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Changrui Liu , Sven U. Pfeiffer , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

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

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

Accurate localization is crucial for effectively operating mobile robots in indoor environments. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to mobile robot localization by integrating an ultrasound-based indoor positioning system (IPS)…

Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

In this work, we propose a factor graph optimization (FGO) framework to simultaneously solve the calibration problem for Ultra-WideBand (UWB) anchors and the robot localization problem. Calibrating UWB anchors manually can be time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

This work performs the design, real-time hardware realization, and experimental evaluation of a positioning system by ultra-violet (UV) communication under photon-level signal detection. The positioning is based on time-difference of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Shihui Yu , Chubing Lv , Yueke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Lei Sun , Juliang Cao , Ruihang Yu , Chen Gong , Wenqi Wu , Zhengyuan Xu

Localization of an autonomous mobile robot during planetary exploration is challenging due to the unknown terrain, the difficult lighting conditions and the lack of any global reference such as satellite navigation systems. We present a…

Today, many applications such as production or rescue settings rely on highly accurate entity positioning. Advanced Time of Flight (ToF) based positioning methods provide highaccuracy localization of entities. A key challenge for ToF based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Maximilian von Tschirschnitz , Marcel Wagner , Marc-Oliver Pahl , Georg Carle

Ultra-wideband (UWB) based positioning with fewer anchors has attracted significant research interest in recent years, especially under energy-constrained conditions. However, most existing methods rely on discrete-time representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jian Sun , Wei Sun , Genwei Zhang , Kailun Yang , Song Li , Xiangqi Meng , Na Deng , Chongbin Tan

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