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Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is a mature technology that contested other wireless technologies in the advent of the IoT but did not achieve the same levels of widespread adoption. In recent years, however, with its potential as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xianjia Yu , Qingqing Li , Jorge Peña Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

In this paper, an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning system is introduced, that leverages six identical custom-designed boards, each featuring an ESP32 microcontroller and a DWM3000 module from Quorvo. The system is capable of achieving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sebastian Krebs , Tom Herter

Several deployment locations of mobile robotic systems are human made (i.e. urban firefighter, building inspection, property security) and the manager may have access to domain-specific knowledge about the place, which can provide semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Rafael Gomes Braga , Sina Karimi , Ulrich Dah-Achinanon , Ivanka Iordanova , David St-Onge

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are effective for locating and tracking people and objects in various industrial environments. Since energy consumption is critical to prolonging the lifespan of WSNs, we propose an energy-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Kan Zheng , Hang Li , Lei Lei , Wei Xiang , Jian Qiao , Xuemin , Shen

The paper presents a novel Wi-Fi fingerprinting system that uses Channel State Information (CSI) data for fine-grained pedestrian localization. The proposed system exploits the frequency diversity and spatial diversity of the features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Muhammad Emad-ud-din

In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the user's position directly. However, both the Wi-Fi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Viet-Cuong Ta , Trung-Kien Dao , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Eric Castelli

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is widely used in IoT systems because of its low power consumption, interoperability, and reliable bidirectional communication. However, its connection-oriented architecture introduces trade-offs among wake-up…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ziyao Zhou , Chen Shen , Tiancheng Cao , Hen-Wei Huang

Inter-agent relative localization is critical for any multi-robot system operating in the absence of external positioning infrastructure or prior environmental knowledge. We propose a novel inter-agent relative 2D pose estimation system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Andrew Fishberg , Jonathan P. How

The paper presents an approach to indoor personal localization on a mobile device based on visual place recognition. We implemented on a smartphone two state-of-the-art algorithms that are representative to two different approaches to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Michał Nowicki , Jan Wietrzykowski , Piotr Skrzypczyński

While it is often critical for indoor-location- and proximity-aware applications to know whether a user is in a space or not (e.g., a specific room or office), a key challenge is that the difference between standing on one side or another…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Scott A. Carter , Daniel Avrahami , Nami Tokunaga

We examined UWB-based indoor location in conjunction with a fingerprint technique in this work. We built a connection between the measured and real distances for the UWB indoor positioning system. This connection is used to produce a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Chenyu Wang , Zihuai Lin

The BLEBeacon dataset is a collection of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement packets/traces generated from BLE beacons carried by people following their daily routine inside a university building. A network of Raspberry Pi 3…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Dimitrios Sikeridis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Michael Devetsikiotis

This paper proposes a high-accuracy radio map construction method tailored for environments where location information is affected by bursty errors. Radio maps are an effective tool for visualizing wireless environments. Although extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Koki Kanzaki , Koya Sato

Shifting 6G-and-beyond wireless systems to higher frequency bands and the utilization of massive multiple-input multiple-output arrays will extend the near-field region, affecting beamforming and user localization schemes. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nima Mozaffarikhosravi , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Italo Atzeni

This paper proposes an efficient hybrid localization framework for the autonomous navigation of an unmanned ground vehicle in uneven or rough terrain, as well as techniques for detailed processing of 3D point cloud data. The framework is an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ioannis Alamanos , George P. Moustris , Costas S. Tzafestas

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

In this paper, we investigate ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and tracking in cluttered environments. Instead of mitigating the multipath, we exploit the specular reflections to enhance the localizability and improve the positioning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Chenglong Li , Zukun Lu , Long Huang , Shaojie Ni , Guangfu Sun , Emmeric Tanghe , Wout Joseph

The application of mobile computing is currently altering patterns of our behavior to a greater degree than perhaps any other invention. In combination with the introduction of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and similar technologies enabling…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Tommy Nilsson

Indoor location identification and navigation need to be as simple, seamless, and ubiquitous as its outdoor GPS-based counterpart is. It would be of great convenience to the mobile user to be able to continue navigating seamlessly as he or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Fahed Awad , Aisha Al-Sadi , Fida'a Al-Quran , Abdulsalam Alsmady

Using WiFi signals for indoor localization is the main localization modality of the existing personal indoor localization systems operating on mobile devices. WiFi fingerprinting is also used for mobile robots, as WiFi signals are usually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Michał Nowicki , Jan Wietrzykowski