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Source localization based on signal strength measurements has become very popular due to its practical simplicity. However, the severe nonlinearity and non-convexity make the related optimization problem mathematically difficult to solve,…
With the increasing demand for location-based services, localization technology research has recently intensified. Received signal strength (RSS)-based localization has the advantage of simplicity. However, as RSS-based localization…
Received signal strength (RSS)-based wireless localization is easy to implement at low cost. In practice,exact positions of anchors may not be available. This paper focuses on determining the location of a source in the presence of…
The Received Signal Strength based source localization can encounter severe problems originating from uncertain information about the anchor positions in practice. The anchor positions, although commonly assumed to be precisely known prior…
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have received significant attention due to their various applications, with underwater target localization playing a vital role in enhancing network performance. Given the challenges and high…
In applications such as seismic acquisition, the position information of sensor nodes, that are deployed in a linear topology, is desired with sub-meter accuracy in the presence of a limited number of anchor nodes. This can be achieved with…
Cooperative localization (CL) enables accurate position estimation in multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. This paper presents a comparative study of five CL approaches: Centralized Cooperative Localization (CCL),…
Cooperative geolocation has attracted significant research interests in recent years. A large number of localization algorithms rely on the availability of statistical knowledge of measurement errors, which is often difficult to obtain in…
In daily life, mobile and wearable devices with high computing power, together with anchors deployed in indoor environments, form a common solution for the increasing demands for indoor location-based services. Within the technologies and…
In this paper, a cooperative localization algorithm is proposed that considers the existence of obstacles in mobilityassisted wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this scheme, a mobile anchor (MA) node cooperates with static sensor nodes and…
This paper presents the development of a system able to estimate the 2D relative position of nodes in a wireless network, based on distance measurements between the nodes. The system uses ultra wide band ranging technology and the Bluetooth…
We analyze the problem of localization algorithms for underwater sensor networks. We first characterize the underwater channel for radio communications and adjust a linear model with measurements of real transmissions. We propose an…
This paper studies a coordinate alignment problem for cooperative mobile sensor network localization with range-based measurements. The network consists of target nodes, each of which has only access position information in a local fixed…
We propose a Bayesian framework for the received-signal-strength-based cooperative localization problem with unknown path loss exponent. Our purpose is to infer the marginal posterior of each unknown parameter: the position or the path loss…
A distributed spatio-temporal information based cooperative positioning (STICP) algorithm is proposed for wireless networks that require three-dimensional (3D) coordinates and operate in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied…
The accurate geo-localization of mobile devices based upon received signal strength (RSS) in an urban area is hindered by obstacles in the signal propagation path. Current localization methods have their own advantages and drawbacks.…
In this paper, we propose a factor-graph-based cooperative positioning algorithm that uses RSS radio measurements and accounts for the directivity of the antennas. This is achieved by modeling the directivity with a parametric antenna…
In this letter, the localization of terrestrial nodes when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used as base stations is investigated. Particularly, a novel localization scenario based on received signal strength (RSS) from terrestrial nodes…
This paper considers N mobile nodes that move together in the vicinity of each other, whose initial poses as well as subsequent movements must be accurately tracked in real time with the assist of M(>=3) reference nodes. By engaging the…
Global Navigation Satellite Systems typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions between devices and satellites is low. Therefore, alternative location methods are required to achieve good…