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The ability of a sensor node to determine its physical location within a network (Localization) is of fundamental importance in sensor networks. Interpretating data from sensors will not be possible unless the context of the data is known;…

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A distributed pose localization framework based on direction measurements is proposed for a type of \textit{leader-follower} multi-agent systems in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The novelty of the proposed localization method lies in the elimination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Quoc Van Tran , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hyo-Sung Ahn

Estimating vehicles' locations is one of the key components in intelligent traffic management systems (ITMSs) for increasing traffic scene awareness. Traditionally, stationary sensors have been employed in this regard. The development of…

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We introduce a planner designed to guide robot manipulators in stably placing objects within intricate scenes. Our proposed method reverses the traditional approach to object placement: our planner selects contact points first and then…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Philippe Nadeau , Jonathan Kelly

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

Localization is one of the most important factor in wireless sensor networks as many applications demand position information of sensors. Recently there is an increasing interest on the use of mobile anchors for localizing sensors. Most of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Kaushik Mondal , Arindam Karmakar , Partha Sarathi Mandal

With more devices competing for limited spectrum, dynamic spectrum sharing is increasingly vulnerable to interference from unauthorized emitters. This motivates fast detection and localization of these emitters using low-cost, distributed…

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The application of radio-based positioning systems is ever increasing. In light of the dissemination of the Internet of Things and location-aware communication systems, the demands on localization architectures and amount of possible use…

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This paper proposes a method for the three-dimensional localization of an active aerial target by a single ground based sensor. The proposed method employs the time and frequency differences of arrival of the signal received directly from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Saber Kaviani , Fereidoon Behnia

The present work considers the localization problem in wireless sensor networks formed by fixed nodes. Each node seeks to estimate its own position based on noisy measurements of the relative distance to other nodes. In a centralized batch…

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In the field of structural health monitoring (SHM), the acquisition of acoustic emissions to localise damage sources has emerged as a popular approach. Despite recent advances, the task of locating damage within composite materials and…

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When nodes in a mobile network use relative noisy measurements with respect to their neighbors to estimate their positions, the overall connectivity and geometry of the measurement network has a critical influence on the achievable…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) relies on monostatic sensing (MS) and bistatic positioning (BP) to enable comprehensive environmental awareness and user localization. However, existing frameworks predominantly assume static…

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Localizing and tracking the pose of robotic grippers are necessary skills for manipulation tasks. However, the manipulators with imprecise kinematic models (e.g. low-cost arms) or manipulators with unknown world coordinates (e.g. poor…

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Many signal processing algorithms for distributed sensors are capable of improving their performance if the positions of sensors are known. In this paper, we focus on estimators for inferring the relative geometry of distributed arrays and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Szymon Woźniak , Konrad Kowalczyk

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

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LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jianshi Wu , Minghang Zhu , Dunqiang Liu , Wen Li , Sheng Ao , Siqi Shen , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

This manuscript is a preliminary pre-print version of a journal submission by the authors, revisiting the problem of range measurement based localization of a signal source or a sensor. The major geometric difficulty of the problem comes…

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