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Localization using time-difference of arrival (TDOA) has myriad applications, e.g., in passive surveillance systems and marine mammal research. In this paper, we present a Bayesian estimation method that can localize an unknown number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Wenyu Zhang , Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Florian Meyer

The following paper presents an adaptive anchor pairs selection method for ultra-wideband (UWB) Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) based positioning systems. The method divides the area covered by the system into several zones and assigns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Marcin Kolakowski

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

We introduce a Bayesian estimation approach for the passive localization of an acoustic source in shallow water using a single mobile receiver. The proposed probabilistic focalization method estimates the time-varying source location in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Luisa Watkins , Pietro Stinco , Alessandra Tesei , Florian Meyer

Wireless indoor localization has attracted significant research interest due to its high accuracy, low cost, lightweight design, and low power consumption. Specifically, ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Mingliang Tang , Angela P. Schoellig

In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position and timing information by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. Compared with the one-way TOA technique, the two-way…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

This letter proposes an algebraic solution for the problem of 3-D source localization utilizing the minimum number of measurements, i.e., one Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and one Angle of Arrival (AOA) pair. The proposed method employs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mojtaba Amiri , Rouhollah Amiri

The paper aims to reveal the relationship between the performance of moving object tracking algorithms and the tracking anchors (station) deployment. The Dilution of Precision (DoP) for Time difference of arrival (TDoA) technique with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Fengyun Zhang , Hao Li , Yulong Ding , Shuang-Hua Yang , Li Yang

We investigate the problem of high frequency (HF) source localization using the time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) observations of ionosphere-refracted radio rays based on quasi-parabolic (QP) modeling. An unresolved but pertinent issue in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Wenxin Xiong , Christian Schindelhauer , Hing Cheung So

Among the various Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging methods, the absence of uplink communication or centralized computation makes downlink time-difference-of-arrival (DL-TDOA) localization the most suitable for large-scale industrial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Sagnik Bhattacharya , Junyoung Choi , Joohyun Lee

Separating sources is a common challenge in applications such as speech enhancement and telecommunications, where distinguishing between overlapping sounds helps reduce interference and improve signal quality. Additionally, in multichannel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Linda Fabiani , Sebastian J. Schlecht , Isabel Haasler , Filip Elvander

Many applications require positioning. Time of Flight (ToF) methods calculate distances by measuring the propagation time of signals. We present a novel ToF localization method. Our new approach works infrastructure-less, without…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Maximilian von Tschirschnitz , Marcel Wagner , Marc-Oliver Pahl , Georg Carle

Location awareness is now becoming a vital requirement for many practical applications. In this paper, we consider passive localization of multiple targets with one transmitter and several receivers based on time of arrival (TOA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Nan Wu , Weijie Yuan , Hua Wang , Jingming Kuang

Measuring the Time delay of Arrival (TDOA) between a set of sensors is the basic setup for many applications, such as localization or signal beamforming. This paper presents the set of TDOA matrices, which are built from noise-free TDOA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Jose Velasco , Daniel Pizarro , Javier Macias-Guarasa , Afsaneh Asaei

This paper presents a method for real-time estimation of 2-dimensional direction of arrival (2D-DOA) of one or more sound sources using a nonlinear array of three microphones. 2D-DOA is estimated employing frame-level time difference of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Anton Kovalyov , Kashyap Patel , Issa Panahi

This paper focuses on static source localization employing different combinations of measurements, including time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA), received-signal-strength (RSS), angle-of-arrival (AOA), and time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Kang Tang , Sheng Xu , Yuqi Yang , He Kong , Yongsheng Ma

This paper studies the positioning problem based on two-way time-of-arrival (TW-TOA) measurements in asynchronous wireless sensor networks. Since the optimal estimator for this problem involves difficult nonconvex optimization, we propose…

Applications · Statistics 2014-07-23 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Sinan Gezici , Erik G. Ström

Channel Charting (CC) has emerged as a promising framework for data-driven radio localization, yet existing approaches often struggle to scale globally and to handle the distortions introduced by non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohsen Ahadi , Omid Esrafilian , Florian Kaltenberger , Adeel Malik

Localizing mobile robotic nodes in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a complex problem, particularly in dynamic, unstructured scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based sensing and localization modalities may fail.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Directions of arrival (DOA) estimation or localization of sources is an important problem in many applications for which numerous algorithms have been proposed. Most localization methods use block-level processing that combines multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Ruchi Pandey , Santosh Nannuru