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Effective indoor positioning is critical for public safety, enabling first responders to locate at-risk individuals accurately during emergency scenarios. However, traditional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) often perform poorly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Gaurav Duggal , Harish K. Dureppagari , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed , R. Michael Buehrer

A main challenge in target localization arises from the lack of reliable distance measures. This issue is especially pronounced in indoor settings due to the presence of walls, floors, furniture, and other dynamically changing conditions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Mahesh K. Banavar , Shandeepa Wickramasinghe , Monalisa Achalla , Jie Sun

Enhancing 3D and Z-axis positioning accuracy is crucial for effective rescue in indoor emergencies, ensuring safety for emergency responders and at-risk individuals. Additionally, reducing the dependence of a positioning system on fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Gaurav Duggal , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

This paper aims to improve the performance and positioning accuracy of a robot by using the particle filter method. The laser range information is a wireless navigation system mainly used to measure, position, and control autonomous robots.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Rashid Ali , Dil Nawaz Hakro , Yongping He , Wenpeng Fu , Zhiqiang Cao

We propose a method for predicting the location of user equipment (UE) using wireless fingerprints in dynamic indoor non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments. In particular, our method copes with the challenges posed by the drift, birth, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

Accurate localization in indoor environments is a challenge due to the Non Line of Sight (NLoS) nature of the signaling. In this paper, we explore the use of AI/ML techniques for positioning accuracy enhancement in Indoor Factory (InF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sai Prasanth Kotturi , Anil Kumar Yerrapragada , Sai Prasad , Radha Krishna Ganti

Ray tracing (RT) simulations require accurate transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) location information from real-world measurements to accurately characterize wireless propagation behavior in an environment. Such wireless propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Mingjun Ying , Peijie Ma , Dipankar Shakya , Theodore S. Rappaport

WiFi technology has been used pervasively in fine-grained indoor localization, gesture recognition, and adaptive communication. Achieving better performance in these tasks generally boils down to differentiating Line-Of-Sight (LOS) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sahib Singh Dhanjal , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice

The challenging problem of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) localization is critical for many wireless networking applications. The lack of available datasets has made NLOS localization difficult to tackle with ML-driven methods, but recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rafayel Darbinyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

High-accuracy positioning has gained significant interest for many use-cases across various domains such as industrial internet of things (IIoT), healthcare and entertainment. Radio frequency (RF) measurements are widely utilized for user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Anil Kirmaz , Taylan Sahin , Diomidis S. Michalopoulos , Wolfgang Gerstacker

This paper tackles the challenge of accurate positioning in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments, with a focus on indoor public safety scenarios where NLoS bias severely impacts localization performance. We explore Diffraction MultiPath…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Gaurav Duggal , Anand M. Kumar , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nishith Tripathi , Jeffrey H. Reed

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is anticipated to play a crucial role in sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. A significant challenge in ISAC systems is the degradation of localization accuracy due to poor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Keivan Khosroshahi , Philippe Sehier , Sami Mekki , Michael Suppa

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), i.e., the reconstruction of the environment represented by a (3D) map and the concurrent pose estimation, has made astonishing progress. Meanwhile, large scale applications aiming at the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vincent Ress , Wei Zhang , David Skuddis , Norbert Haala , Uwe Soergel

Accurate and precise positioning is required to guarantee the massive adoption of a wide range of 5G indoor applications, such as logistics and smart manufacturing. Native support for New Radio (NR) positioning services was included in 3GPP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mohsen Abedi , Alexis A. Dowhuszko , Risto Wichman

In the domain of RIS-based indoor localization, our work introduces two distinct approaches to address real-world challenges. The first method is based on deep learning, employing a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network. The second, a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Rafael A. Aguiar , Nuno Paulino , Luís M. Pessoa

This study explores the use of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) components in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems for joint localization and environment sensing. The radar cross section (RCS) of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Wankai Tang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Shi Jin

Recently, location-based services (LBS) have steered attention to indoor positioning systems (IPS). WLAN-based IPSs relying on received signal strength (RSS) measurements such as fingerprinting are gaining popularity due to proven high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Erick Schmidt , David Akopian

An indoor, real-time location system (RTLS) can benefit both hospitals and patients by improving clinical efficiency through data-driven optimization of procedures. Bluetooth-based RTLS systems are cost-effective but lack accuracy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Guanglin Tang , Yulong Yan , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia , Meyer Zinn , Zipalkumar Trivedi , Alicia Yingling , Kenneth Westover , Steve Jiang

We consider the following positioning problem where several base stations (BS) try to locate a user equipment (UE): The UE sends a positioning signal to several BS. Each BS performs Angle of Arrival (AoA) measurements on the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Viet-Hoa Nguyen , Vincent Corlay , Nicolas Gresset , Cristina Ciochina