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The localization technology is important for the development of indoor location-based services (LBS). The radio frequency (RF) fingerprint-based localization is one of the most promising approaches. However, it is challenging to apply this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-06 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Yang Liu

To address the complex beam control in traditional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, researchers have proposed adaptive beam alignment using retro-directive antenna (RDA) arrays. This approach creates echo resonance between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Yixuan Guo , Shuaifan Xia , Mingliang Xiong , Qingwen Liu , Wen Fang , Qingwei Jiang , Gang Yan , Jiangchuan Mu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) positioning has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation intelligent systems. The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has revolutionized high-precision mmWave localization by enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Xin Cheng , Yuqing Yang , Guangjie Han , Menglu Li , Ruoguang Li , Feng Shu

We extend our work on a novel indoor positioning system (IPS) for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) based on radar sensing of local, passive radar reflectors. Through the combination of simple reflectors and a single-channel frequency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sven Hinderer , Pascal Schlachter , Zhibin Yu , Xiaofeng Wu , Bin Yang

This paper introduces an indoor localization method using fixed reflector objects within the environment, leveraging a base station (BS) equipped with Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Time of Arrival (ToA) measurement capabilities. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Milad Johnny , Shahrokh Valaee

Indoor localization has drawn much attention owing to its potential for supporting location based services. Among various indoor localization techniques, the received signal strength (RSS) based technique is widely researched. However, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Indoor positioning plays a pivotal role in a wide range of applications, from smart homes to industrial automation. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive approach for accurate positioning in indoor environments through the integration…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Karamat Beigi , Hamed Shah-Mansouri

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are one of the most promising technological enablers of the next (6th) generation of wireless systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel use-case of the RIS technology in radio localization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Kamran Keykhosravi , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , George C. Alexandropoulos , Henk Wymeersch

With the emerge of the Internet of Things (IoT), localization within indoor environments has become inevitable and has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Several efforts have been made to cope with the challenges of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ashkan Goharfar , Jaber Babaki , Mehdi Rasti , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is a crucial technology that enables medical staff and hospital managements to accurately locate and track persons or assets inside the medical buildings. Among other technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Silvano Cortesi , Marc Dreher , Michele Magno

Navigation inside a closed area with no GPS-signal accessibility is a highly challenging task. In order to tackle this problem, recently the imaging-based methods have grabbed the attention of many researchers. These methods either extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ali Ghofrani , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi , Seyed Mojtaba Tabatabaie

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Position-aided beam selection methods have been shown to be an effective approach to achieve high beamforming gain while limiting the overhead and latency of initial access in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Most research in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Sajad Rezaie , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Carles Navarro Manchón

For reliable operation, next generation autonomous agents will need enhanced situational perception as well as precise navigation capabilities. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals that are utilized by practically all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Nicolas Souli , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

This paper proposes a new three-dimensional (3D) wireless passive relaying system enabled by aerial IRS (AIRS). Compared to the conventional terrestrial IRS, AIRS enjoys more deployment flexibility as well as wider-range signal reflection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) like GPS suffer from accuracy degradation and are almost unavailable in indoor environments. Indoor positioning systems (IPS) based on WiFi signals have been gaining popularity. However, owing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Pranav Sankhe , Saqib Azim , Sachin Goyal , Tanya Choudhary , Kumar Appaiah , Sukumar Srikant

Location knowledge in indoor environment using Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) has become very useful and popular in recent years. Indoor wireless localization suffers from severe multi-path fading and non-line-of-sight conditions. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Gang Wang , Zuxuan Zhang

Accurate and precise positioning is required to guarantee the massive adoption of a wide range of 5G indoor applications, such as logistics and smart manufacturing. Native support for New Radio (NR) positioning services was included in 3GPP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mohsen Abedi , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Risto Wichman

In daily life, mobile and wearable devices with high computing power, together with anchors deployed in indoor environments, form a common solution for the increasing demands for indoor location-based services. Within the technologies and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Pavel Pascacio , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Sven Casteleyn , Elena Simona Lohan

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang