Cooperative multipath-aided indoor localization
Paper i proceeding, 2012

To obtain good position accuracy with state-of-the-art indoor localization algorithms, multiple anchors must be within radio range of the user. However, anchor placement and maintenance is expensive. By reducing the number of anchors per room, overall costs are reduced. In [1], an algorithm that can estimate the position of a user using only one anchor and a priori floor plan information. However, performance for static localization was poor due to the presence of ambiguities. This paper describes a cooperative positioning algorithm that utilizes a single anchor and provides both the position and the position uncertainty for multiple users, by letting the users exchange their position information. The problem is represented with a factor graph, and belief propagation (BP) is used to extract the positions and their accuracy. The proposed cooperative algorithm leads to a significant improvement of the positioning accuracy compared to the non-cooperative method from [1].

Författare

S. van de Velde

Universiteit Gent

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Peter Meissner

Technische Universität Graz

K. Witrisal

Technische Universität Graz

H. Steendam

Universiteit Gent

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

15253511 (ISSN)

3107-3111 6214339
978-1-4673-0437-5 (ISBN)

Coopnet

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/FP7/258418), 2011-05-01 -- 2016-04-30.

Robust och feltolerant kooperativ positionering

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2010-5889), 2011-01-01 -- 2013-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214339

ISBN

978-1-4673-0437-5

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