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Indoor localization systems are most commonly based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements of either WiFi or Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE) beacons. In such systems, the two most common techniques are trilateration and…
Accurate location information is indispensable for the emerging applications of \ac{iov}, such as automatic driving and formation control. In the real scenario, vision-based localization has demonstrated superior performance to other…
The challenge to synchronize augmented reality (AR) across sessions/devices has been solved by relying solely on vision-feature mapping, which is suboptimal in scaling workable space and flaws under visual changes in surroundings. This…
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular for indoor localization, where range measurements are obtained by measuring the time-of-flight of radio signals. However, the range measurements typically suffer from a…
Precise indoor localization of moving targets is a challenging activity which cannot be easily accomplished without combining different sources of information. In this sense, the combination of different data sources with an appropriate…
In ultra-dense LEO satellite networks, conventional communication-oriented beam pattern design cannot provide multiple favorable signals from different satellites simultaneously, and thus leads to poor positioning performance. To tackle…
Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can be used for automatically switching off the light, air…
Many localization algorithms and systems have been developed by means of wireless sensor networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve higher localization accuracy, extra hardware equipments are utilized by most of the…
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…
In this paper, the problem of target localization in the presence of outlying sensors is tackled. This problem is important in practice because in many real-world applications the sensors might report irrelevant data unintentionally or…
The combination of ultrawideband (UWB) radios and inertial measurement units (IMU) can provide accurate positioning. To ensure reliable communication, the radios are generally mounted at the extremities of a mobile system whereas the IMUs…
This paper provides a robust, scalable Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) based indoor localization solution using commodity hardware. While WiFi-based indoor localization has been widely studied, BLE has emerged a key technology for…
This paper studies the problem of having mobile robots in a multi-robot system maintain an estimate of the relative position and relative orientation of near-by robots in the environment. This problem is studied in the context of large…
Spatial and contextual awareness has the potential to revolutionize sensor nodes, enabling spatially augmented data collection and location-based services. With its high bandwidth, superior energy efficiency, and precise time-of-flight…
We study the network localization problem, i.e., the problem of determining node positions of a wireless sensor network modeled as a unit disk graph. In an arbitrarily deployed network, positions of all nodes of the network may not be…
This paper considers N mobile nodes that move together in the vicinity of each other, whose initial poses as well as subsequent movements must be accurately tracked in real time with the assist of M(>=3) reference nodes. By engaging the…
Light emitting diode (LED) based visible light positioning (VLP) networks can provide accurate location information in indoor environments. In this manuscript, we propose to employ cooperative localization for visible light networks by…
Efficient and precise location of emission sources in an urbanized environment is very important in electronic warfare. Therefore, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for such tasks. In this paper, we present the…
In this paper we have proposed clock error mitigation from the measurements in the scheduled based self localization system. We propose measurement model with clock errors while following a scheduled transmission among anchor nodes.…
Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, smartphone-based proximity tracing systems became of utmost interest. Many of these systems use BLE signals to estimate the distance between two persons. The quality of this method depends on many factors and,…