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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

The quasi-optical propagation of millimeter-wave signals enables high-accuracy localization algorithms that employ geometric approaches or machine learning models. However, most algorithms require information on the indoor environment, may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Anish Shastri , Steve Blandino , Camillo Gentile , Chiehping Lai , Paolo Casari

A robust and accurate positioning solution is required to increase the safety in GPS-denied environments. Although there is a lot of available research in this area, little has been done for confined environments such as tunnels. Therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Vladimir Savic , Javier Ferrer-Coll , Per Angskog , Jose Chilo , Peter Stenumgaard , Erik G. Larsson

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

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurrent TDOA measurements are infeasible because targets receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Chenxin Tu , Xiaowei Cui , Gang Liu , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Indoor positioning is one of the core technologies of Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), and is expected to play a significant role in the upcoming era of AI. However, affected by the complexity of indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Liang Chen , Xin Zhou , Feifei Chen , Lie-Liang Yang , Ruizhi Chen

Sound event localization and detection (SELD) systems using audio recordings from a microphone array rely on spatial cues for determining the location of sound events. As a consequence, the localization performance of such systems is to a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Axel Berg , Johanna Engman , Jens Gulin , Karl Åström , Magnus Oskarsson

There have been many research efforts in the area of localization in recent years. Especially within the Internet of Things (IoT), the knowledge of position information for individual components is of great interest, for example, in asset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Thomas Maul , Joerg Robert , Sebastian Klob

Many applications require positioning. Time of Flight (ToF) methods calculate distances by measuring the propagation time of signals. We present a novel ToF localization method. Our new approach works infrastructure-less, without…

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

Owing to the ubiquity of cellular communication signals, positioning with the fifth generation (5G) signal has emerged as a promising solution in global navigation satellite system-denied areas. Unfortunately, although the widely employed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Mengguan Pan , Shengheng Liu , Peng Liu , Wangdong Qi , Yongming Huang , Wang Zheng , Qihui Wu , Markus Gardill

Accurate localization of non-cooperative signal sources in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge with a wide range of applications, including autonomous navigation, industrial automation, and emergency response.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Xiucheng Wang , Qiming Zhang , Nan Cheng

Indoor localization is a long-standing challenge in mobile computing, with significant implications for enabling location-aware and intelligent applications within smart environments such as homes, offices, and retail spaces. As AI…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Amod K. Agrawal

Measuring the Time delay of Arrival (TDOA) between a set of sensors is the basic setup for many applications, such as localization or signal beamforming. This paper presents the set of TDOA matrices, which are built from noise-free TDOA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Jose Velasco , Daniel Pizarro , Javier Macias-Guarasa , Afsaneh Asaei

Channel charting (CC) consists in learning a mapping between the space of raw channel observations, made available from pilot-based channel estimation in multicarrier multiantenna system, and a low-dimensional space where close points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Taha Yassine , Luc Le Magoarou , Matthieu Crussière , Stephane Paquelet

Channel charting has emerged as a powerful tool for user equipment localization and wireless environment sensing. Its efficacy lies in mapping high-dimensional channel data into low-dimensional features that preserve the relative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ge Chen , Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

Underwater source localization problems are complicated and challenging: a) the sound propagation speed is often unknown and the unpredictable ocean current might lead to the uncertainties of sensor parameters (i.e. position and velocity);…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Bingbing Zhang , Yongchang Hu , Hongyi Wang , Zhaowen Zhuang

Extending terrestrial networks into low-altitude airspace is a practical way to support aerial services, and accurate low-altitude radio maps are essential for characterizing terrestrial base station (BS) coverage and guiding system design.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Bowen Li , Haotian Zhang , Mu Jia , Junting Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging and localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions is still an open research topic. Indeed, multipath…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Simone Angarano , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

This paper presents, for the first time, an open-source implementation of the 3GPP Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (UL-TDoA) positioning method using the OpenAirInterface (OAI) framework. UL-TDoA is a critical positioning technique in 5G…

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture for 6G networks. Acquiring accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Ruoxiao Cao , Wentao Yu , Zixin Wang , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Yi Gong , Khaled B. Letaief