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One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Obaid ur Rehman , Nadeem Javaid , Ayesha Bibi , Zahoor Ali Khan

Wireless indoor localization using predictive models with received signal strength information (RSSI) requires proper calibration for reliable position estimates. One remedy is to employ synthetic labels produced by a (generally different)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Seonghoon Yoo , Houssem Sifaou , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang , Osvaldo Simeone

Outdoor positioning systems based on the Global Navigation Satellite System have several shortcomings that have deemed their use for indoor positioning impractical. Location fingerprinting, which utilizes machine learning, has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fahad Alhomayani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Numerous indoor localization techniques have been proposed recently to meet the intensive demand for location based service, and Wi-Fi fingerprint-based approaches are the most popular and inexpensive solutions. Among them, one of the main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Zhiping Jiang , Jizhong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , Wei Xi , Kun Zhao , Shaojie Tang , Jinsong Han

With the rapid development of indoor location-based services (LBSs), the demand for accurate localization keeps growing as well. To meet this demand, we propose an indoor localization algorithm based on graph convolutional network (GCN). We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yanzan Sun , Qinggang Xie , Guangjin Pan , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

Current data-driven Wi-Fi-based indoor localization systems face three critical challenges: protecting user privacy, achieving accurate predictions in dynamic multipath environments, and generalizing across different deployments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kanishka Roy , Tahsin Fuad Hasan , Chenfeng Wu , Eshwar Vangala , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

Current and future wireless applications strongly rely on precise real-time localization. A number of applications such as smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), medical services, automotive industry, underwater exploration, public safety,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Nasir Saeed , Haewoon Nam , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation of backscatter technologies that realize the ubiquitous and long-term connectivity to empower smart cities and smart homes. Localizing such backscatter tags is crucial for IoT-based smart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-28 Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Sheyang Tang , Shi Jin , Tao Jiang

Recent interest towards autonomous navigation and exploration robots for indoor applications has spurred research into indoor Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) robot systems. While most of these SLAM systems use Visual and LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Aditya Arun , William Hunter , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula , Dinesh Bharadia

Wi-Fi fingerprinting is widely applied for indoor localization due to the widespread availability of Wi-Fi devices. However, traditional methods are not ideal for multi-building and multi-floor environments due to the scalability issues.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sihao Li , Zhe Tang , Kyeong Soo Kim , Jeremy S. Smith

The main limitation that constrains the fast and comprehensive application of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) based indoor localization systems with Received Signal Strength (RSS) positioning algorithms is the building of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Caifa Zhou , Andreas Wieser , Xuezhi Tan

Indoor localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Dennis Melamed , Karnik Ram , Vivek Roy , Kris Kitani

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ran Liu , Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Madhushanka Padmal , Thiruketheeswaran Shaganan , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , U-Xuan Tan

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming an important part of many applications. Knowing the exact location of each sensor in the network is very important issue. Therefore, the localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska , Vesna Kirandziska

We propose a scheme to employ backpropagation neural networks (BPNNs) for both stages of fingerprinting-based indoor positioning using WLAN/WiFi signal strengths (FWIPS): radio map construction during the offline stage, and localization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-22 Caifa Zhou , Andreas Wieser

Indoor localization is a supporting technology for a broadening range of pervasive wireless applications. One promis- ing approach is to locate users with radio frequency fingerprints. However, its wide adoption in real-world systems is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Xiao-Yang Liu , Shuchin Aeron , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang , Min-You Wu

Channel state information (CSI) based fingerprinting for WIFI indoor localization has attracted lots of attention very recently.The frequency diverse and temporally stable CSI better represents the location dependent channel characteristics…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhihui Gao , Yunfan Gao , Sulei Wang , Dan Li , Yuedong Xu

Robots in the construction industry can reduce costs through constant monitoring of the work progress, using high precision data capturing. Accurate data capturing requires precise localization of the mobile robot within the environment. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Muhammad Shaheer , Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Holger Voos

Accurate localization is an essential technology for the flexible navigation of robots in large-scale environments. Both SLAM-based and map-based localization will increase the computing load due to the increase in map size, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yixiao Feng , Zhou Jiang , Yongliang Shi , Yunlong Feng , Xiangyu Chen , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou