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We propose a novel solution to the rigid body localization (RBL) problem, in which the three-dimensional (3D) rotation and translation is estimated by only utilizing the range measurements between the wireless sensors on the rigid body and…

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Parameter estimation is a fundamental problem in science and engineering. In many safety-critical applications, one is not only interested in a {\it point} estimator, but also the uncertainty bound that can self-assess the accuracy of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Qin Lu , Yaakov Bar-Shalom , Peter Willett

This paper considers the Cram\`er-Rao lower Bound (CRB) for the source localization problem in the near field. More specifically, we use the exact expression of the delay parameter for the CRB derivation and show how this exact CRB can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Youcef Begriche , Messaoud Thameri , Karim Abed-Meraim

This white paper describes a proposed article that will aim to provide a thorough study of the evolution of the typical paradigm of wireless localization (WL), which is based on a single point model of each target, towards wireless rigid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Niclas Führling , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David González G. , Osvaldo Gonsa

In this paper, we propose a novel framework called rigid body localization for joint position and orientation estimation of a rigid body. We consider a setup in which a few sensors are mounted on a rigid body. The absolute position of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

In real-world applications for automatic guided vehicle (AGV) navigation, the positioning system based on the time-of-flight (TOF) measurements between anchors and tags is confronted with the problem of insufficient measurements caused by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Xinyuan An , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Gang Liu , Mingquan Lu

Many-body localization (MBL) is understood theoretically through the existence of an extensive number of local integrals of motion (LIOMs). These conserved quantities are related to the microscopic quantum degrees of freedom that are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-11 Ben Craps , Oleg Evnin , Dmitry Kovrizhin , Gabriele Pascuzzi

This paper studies a near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar sensing system, in which the transceivers with massive antennas aim to localize multiple near-field targets in the three-dimensional (3D) space over unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper presents Cram\'er-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the complex-valued Blind Source Extraction (BSE) problem based on the assumption that the target signal is independent of the other signals. Two instantaneous mixing models are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Václav Kautský , Zbyněk Koldovský , Petr Tichavský , Vicente Zarzoso

The Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), a well-known lower bound on the performance of any unbiased parameter estimator, has been used to study a wide variety of problems. However, to obtain the CRB, requires an analytical expression for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai Victor Habi , Hagit Messer , Yoram Bresler

Modern mobile communication receivers are often implemented with a direct-conversion architecture, which features a number of advantages over competing designs. A notable limitation of direct-conversion architectures, however, is their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Moritz Tockner , Oliver Lang , Andreas Meingassner-Lang , Mario Huemer

It is proved that in a non-Bayesian parametric estimation problem, if the Fisher information matrix (FIM) is singular, unbiased estimators for the unknown parameter will not exist. Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), a popular tool to lower bound the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Yen-Huan Li , Ping-Cheng Yeh

In practical nonlinear filtering, the assessment of achievable filtering performance is important. In this paper, we focus on the problem of efficiently approximate the posterior Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) in a recursive manner. By using…

Applications · Statistics 2010-05-31 Ming Lei , Pierre Del Moral , Christophe Baehr

In this paper, the problem of target localization in the presence of outlying sensors is tackled. This problem is important in practice because in many real-world applications the sensors might report irrelevant data unintentionally or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Mohsen Joneidi , Behzad Shahrasbi , Nazanin Rahnavard

We consider the potential for positioning with a system where antenna arrays are deployed as a large intelligent surface (LIS), which is a newly proposed concept beyond massive-MIMO where future man-made structures are electronically active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Sha Hu , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

The detection of landmarks or patterns is of interest for extracting features in biological images. Hence, algorithms for finding these keypoints have been extensively investigated in the literature, and their localization and detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Zsuzsanna Püspöki , Arash Amini , Julien Fageot , John Paul Ward , Michael Unser

Designing efficient optimizers for large language models (LLMs) with low-memory requirements and fast convergence is an important and challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards the systematic design of such optimizers through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wenbo Gong , Meyer Scetbon , Chao Ma , Edward Meeds

In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

While visual localization or SLAM has witnessed great progress in past decades, when deploying it on a mobile robot in practice, few works have explicitly considered the kinematic (or dynamic) constraints of the real robotic system when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Xingxing Zuo , Mingming Zhang , Yiming Chen , Yong Liu , Guoquan Huang , Mingyang Li

This paper experimentally and theoretically investigates the fundamental bounds on radio localization precision of far-field Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements. RSS measurements are proportional to power-flow measurements…

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