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The Local Position Measurement system (LPM) is one of the most precise systems for 3D position estimation. It is able to operate in- and outdoor and updates at a rate up to 1000 measurements per second. Previous scientific publications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-07 Juri Sidorenko , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Eckart Michaelsen , Michael Arens

The localization of directional RF emitters presents significant challenges for electronic warfare applications. Traditional localization methods, designed for omnidirectional emitters, experience degraded performance when applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Fraser Williams , Akila Pemasiri , Dhammika Jayalath , Terry Martin , Clinton Fookes

In a visible light positioning (VLP) system, a receiver can estimate its location based on signals transmitted by light emitting diodes (LEDs). In this manuscript, we investigate a quasi-synchronous VLP system, in which the LED transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Ertan Kazikli , Sinan Gezici

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

Movable antenna (MA) technology exhibits great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks due to its capability to alter antenna array geometry. With the growing prevalence of near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

In this letter, the localization of terrestrial nodes when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used as base stations is investigated. Particularly, a novel localization scenario based on received signal strength (RSS) from terrestrial nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hazem Sallouha , Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Alessandro Chiumento , Sofie Pollin

We study the performance bounds of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) relative positioning for vehicles with multiple antenna arrays. The Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound for the estimation of the relative position and the orientation of the Tx vehicle is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-06 Anastasios Kakkavas , Mario H. Castañeda García , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Josef A. Nossek

In a time division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), a user device (UD) determines its position by obtaining sequential time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange measurements from signals broadcast by multiple synchronized base stations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-assisted multiuser integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the base station (BS) and communication users are all equipped with MA for improving both the sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziheng Zhang , Zhendong Li , Nan Cheng

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

Movable Antenna (MA) technology is emerging as a promising advancement with the potential to significantly enhance the performance of future wireless communication and sensing systems. In this paper, we address two-dimensional (2D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Yao , Wen Wu

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haobin Mao , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

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

We investigate the problem of time-of-arrival (TOA) based localization under possible non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation conditions. To robustify the squared-range-based location estimator, we follow the maximum correntropy criterion,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So , Zhi Wang

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers a flexible approach to enhancing wireless channel conditions by adjusting antenna positions within a designated region. While most existing works focus on narrowband MA systems, this paper investigates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Ruixi Feng , Weidong Mei , Lele Lu , Xin Wei , Zhi Chen , Zhen Gao , Boyu Ning

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology for improving the performance of wireless communication systems by providing new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) in antenna position optimization. However, existing works on MA systems have mostly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Liujia Yao , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Beixiong Zheng , Weidong Mei

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurrent TDOA measurements are infeasible because targets receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Chenxin Tu , Xiaowei Cui , Gang Liu , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

This paper focuses on radar waveform optimization for minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. In contrast to conventional approaches relying on semi-definite programming (SDP) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Xiaohua Zhou , Xu Du , Yijie Mao

Although direct position estimation (DPE) has been demonstrated to offer enhanced robustness in GNSS receivers, its theoretical limits and performance in OFDM based positioning systems remain largely unexplored. In this paper, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Sijia Li , Rui Sun , Bing Xu , Yuanwei Liu

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne