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Reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) provides lightweight and accurate motion estimation but suffers from cumulative drift in the…
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…
We consider the problem of localization and distance estimation between a pair of wireless nodes in a multipath propagation environment, but not the usual way of processing a channel measurement between them. We propose a novel paradigm…
Precise indoor localization is an increasingly demanding requirement for various emerging applications, like Virtual/Augmented reality and personalized advertising. Current indoor environments are equipped with pluralities of WiFi access…
Inaccurate spatial tracking in extended reality (XR) devices leads to virtual object jitter, misalignment, and user discomfort, fundamentally limiting immersive experiences and natural interactions. In this work, we introduce a novel…
Accurate and ubiquitous localization is crucial for a variety of applications such as logistics, navigation, intelligent transport, monitoring, control, and also for the benefit of communications. Exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) visual localization in planetary aims to estimate the absolute pose of the UAV in the world coordinate system through satellite maps and images captured by on-board cameras. However, since planetary scenes…
Wireless indoor localization has been a pivotal area of research over the last two decades, becoming a cornerstone for numerous sensing applications. However, conventional wireless localization methods rely on channel state information to…
The increasing popularity of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology for location-based services, such as access control and real-time indoor track&tracing, as well as UWB support in new consumer devices such as smartphones, has resulted in the…
This paper investigates an infra-structure free global localization of a group of communicating mobile agents (e.g., first responders or exploring robots) via an ultra-wideband (UWB) inter-agent ranging aided dead-reckoning. We propose a…
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…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising solution for achieving high data rate and low latency in 5G wireless cellular networks. Since directional beamforming and antenna arrays are exploited in the mmWave networks, accurate…
In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy.…
Current trends in autonomous vehicles and their applications indicates an increasing need in positioning at low battery and compute cost. Lidars provide accurate localization at the cost of high compute and power consumption which could be…
Localization systems intended for home use by people with mild cognitive impairment should comply with specific requirements. They should provide the users with sub-meter accuracy allowing for analyzing patient's movement trajectory and be…
Telecommunication (Telco) outdoor position recovery aims to localize outdoor mobile devices by leveraging measurement report (MR) data. Unfortunately, Telco position recovery requires sufficient amount of MR samples across different areas…
Localization in long-range Internet of Things networks is a challenging task, mainly due to the long distances and low bandwidth used. Moreover, the cost, power, and size limitations restrict the integration of a GPS receiver in each…
Today, experiencing virtual reality (VR) is a cumbersome experience which either requires dedicated infrastructure like infrared cameras to track the headset and hand-motion controllers (e.g., Oculus Rift, HTC Vive), or provides only 3-DoF…
This letter presents a cooperative relative multi-robot localization design and experimental study. We propose a flexible Monte Carlo approach leveraging a particle filter to estimate relative states. The estimation can be based on…
Wearable laser scanning (WLS) system has the advantages of flexibility and portability. It can be used for determining the user's path within a prior map, which is a huge demand for applications in pedestrian navigation, collaborative…