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During this decade, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) brought an increasing interest in the industrial and research world. One of their applications is the indoor localization. The ranging, i.e. the distance evaluation mechanism between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Nezo Ibrahim Fofana , Adrien van den Bossche , Rejane Dalce , Thierry Val

Wireless high-accuracy positioning has recently attracted growing research interest due to diversified nature of applications such as industrial asset tracking, autonomous driving, process automation, and many more. However, obtaining a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Anil Kirmaz , Taylan Şahin , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Muhammad Ikram Ashraf , Wolfgang Gerstacker

This work performs the design, real-time hardware realization, and experimental evaluation of a positioning system by ultra-violet (UV) communication under photon-level signal detection. The positioning is based on time-difference of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Shihui Yu , Chubing Lv , Yueke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Lei Sun , Juliang Cao , Ruihang Yu , Chen Gong , Wenqi Wu , Zhengyuan Xu

For signal processing related to localization technologies, non line of sight (NLOS) multipaths have a significant impact on the localization error level. This study proposes a localization correction method based on convolution neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Yiwen Chen , Tianqi Xiang , Xi Chen , Xin Zhang

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization using time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements under mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. A 3D TDOA Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Cole Dickerson , Saad Masrur , Jonah Dickerson , Özgür Özdemir , Ismail Güvenç

Ultra-wideband (UWB) based positioning with fewer anchors has attracted significant research interest in recent years, especially under energy-constrained conditions. However, most existing methods rely on discrete-time representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jian Sun , Wei Sun , Genwei Zhang , Kailun Yang , Song Li , Xiangqi Meng , Na Deng , Chongbin Tan

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

Ultra-wideband (UWB) time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA)-based localization has emerged as a promising, low-cost, and scalable indoor localization solution, which is especially suited for multi-robot applications. However, there is a lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Xinyuan Qiao , Angela P. Schoellig

In this paper localization using UWB positioning system and an inertial unit containing a single accelerometer is considered. The main part of the paper describes a novel algorithm for person localization. The algorithm is based on modified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Marcin Kolakowski

Localization of robots is vital for navigation and path planning, such as in cases where a map of the environment is needed. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) for indoor location systems has been gaining popularity over the years with the introduction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Muhammad Shalihan , Ran Liu , Chau Yuen

This paper studies the use of directional antennas for received signal strength difference (RSSD) based localization using ultra-wideband and demonstrates the achievable accuracy with this localization method applied to UWB. As introduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Waldemar Gerok , Jürgen Peissig , Thomas Kaiser

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a promising technology for indoor position estimation for various localization applications of object swarms, such as in 3D analysis of human movement with multiple on-body sensors or a swarm of drones in an indoor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Vinish Yogesh , Bert-Jan van Beijnum , Jaap H. Buurke , Chris T. M. Baten

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has shown remarkable potential as a low-cost general solution for robot localization. However, limitations of the UWB signal for precise positioning arise from the disturbances caused by the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umberto Albertin , Mauro Martini , Alessandro Navone , Marcello Chiaberge

Ultra-wideband positioning systems intended for indoor applications often work in non-line of sight conditions, which result in insufficient precision and accuracy of derived localizations. One of the possible solutions is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Marcin Kolakowski , Vitomir Djaja-Josko

In multi-robot systems, relative localization between platforms plays a crucial role in many tasks, such as leader following, target tracking, or cooperative maneuvering. State of the Art (SotA) approaches either rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Valerio Brunacci , Alberto Dionigi , Alessio De Angelis , Gabriele Costante

Positioning is becoming a key component in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The main challenges and limitations are the narrow bandwidth, low power and low cost which reduces the accuracy of the time of arrival (TOA) estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Guangjin Pan , Tao Wang , Xiufeng Jiang , Shunqing Zhang

The paper describes an NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) mitigation method intended for use in a UWB positioning system. In the proposed method propagation conditions between the localized objects and the anchors forming system infrastructure are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Marcin Kolakowski , Jozef Modelski

Location-based services such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and indoor positioning require precise and scalable distance estimates. The bias and variance of range estimators inherently influence the resulting localization quality. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Patrick Rathje , Olaf Landsiedel

Propagation in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions is one of the major impairments in ultrawideband (UWB) wireless localization systems based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. In this paper the problem of the joint statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Indoor positioning using UWB technology has gained interest due to its centimeter-level accuracy potential. However, multipath effects and non-line-of-sight conditions cause ranging errors between anchors and tags. Existing approaches for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Dieter Coppens , Ben Van Herbruggen , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter