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Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in sensor arrays faces limitations under demanding conditions, including low signal-to-noise ratio, single-snapshot scenarios, coherent sources, and unknown source counts. Conventional beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Xuyao Deng , Yong Dou , Kele Xu

Angle of arrival (AOA) is widely used to locate a wireless signal emitter in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization. Compared with received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (TOA), it has higher accuracy and is not sensitive to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Baihua Shi , Yifan Li , Guilu Wu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu

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

Precise localization is one key element of the Internet of Things (IoT). Especially concepts for position estimation when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are unavailable have moved into the focus. One crucial component for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Thomas Maul , Sebastian Klob , Joerg Robert

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

After decades of research in Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation, today Maximum Likelihood (ML) algorithms still provide the best performance in terms of resolution capabilities. At the cost of a multidimensional search, ML algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Xavier Mestre , Pascal Vallet

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

With the introduction of shared spectrum sensing and beam-forming based multi-antenna transceivers, 5G networks demand spectrum sensing to identify opportunities in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Narrow beam-forming makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Piyush Sahoo , Romesh Rajoria , Shivam Chandhok , S. J. Darak , Danilo Pau , Hem-Dutt Dabral

A popular method to estimate the positions or directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple sound sources using an array of microphones is based on steered-response power (SRP) beamforming. For a three-dimensional scenario, SRP-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Klaus Brümann , Simon Doclo

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

Precise Time-of-Arrival (TOA) estimations of aircraft and drone signals are important for a wide set of applications including aircraft/drone tracking, air traffic data verification, or self-localization. Our focus in this work is on TOA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Roberto Calvo-Palomino , Fabio Ricciato , Blaz Repas , Domenico Giustiniano , Vincent Lenders

Accurate indoor localization has long been a challenging problem due to the presence of multipath. Joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) and time delay (TD) estimation is a promising technique for accurate indoor Localization in next generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fei Wen , Peilin Liu , Haichao Wei , Yi Zhang

Accurate indoor localization is a crucial enabling technology for many robotics applications, from warehouse management to monitoring tasks. Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization is a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Wenda Zhao , Jacopo Panerati , Angela P. Schoellig

With the widespread application of location-based services, fingerprint-based localization has demonstrated advantages in environments with complex signal propagation. Deep learning has significantly improved the efficiency of both offline…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yu Zhao , Zhenzhou Jin , Jinke Tang , Li You , Chen Sun , Xiang-Gen Xia , Xiqi Gao

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is one of the most demanding tasks for the millimeter wave (mmWave) communication of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with the hybrid beamforming (HBF) architecture. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Tian Lin , Xuemeng Zhou , Yu Zhu , Yi Jiang

Today, many applications such as production or rescue settings rely on highly accurate entity positioning. Advanced Time of Flight (ToF) based positioning methods provide highaccuracy localization of entities. A key challenge for ToF based…

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly benefited direction of arrival (DoA) estimation methods for speech source localization in noisy environments. However, their localization accuracy is still far from satisfactory due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Kuan-Lin Chen , Ching-Hua Lee , Bhaskar D. Rao , Harinath Garudadri

In this paper, we study probabilistic time-of-arrival (ToA) and angle-of-arrival (AoA) joint localization in real indoor environments. To mitigate the effects of multipath propagation, the joint localization algorithm incorporates into the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chunhua Geng , Traian E. Abrudan , Veli-Matti Kolmonen , Howard Huang

In this paper, a positioning technique based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements is analyzed. The proposed approach is designed to consent range and position estimation, using ultrasound transmissions of a stream of chirp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-20 Alessio De Angelis , Antonio Moschitta , Antonella Comuniello

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