Title
Self-Weighted Multilateration for Indoor Positioning Systems.
Abstract
The paper proposes an improved method for calculating the position of a movable tag whose distance to a (redundant) set of fixed beacons is measured by some suitable physical principle (typically ultra wide band or ultrasound propagation). The method is based on the multilateration technique, where the contribution of each individual beacon is weighed on the basis of a recurring, self-supported calibration of the measurement repeatability of each beacon at a given distance range. The work outlines the method and its implementation, and shows the improvement in measurement quality with respect to the results of a commercial Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) system when tested on the same set of raw beacon-to-tag distances. Two versions of the algorithm are proposed: one-dimensional, or isotropic, and 3D. With respect to the standard approach, the isotropic solution managed to reduce the maximum localization error by around 25%, with a maximum error of m, while the 3D version manages to improve even further the localization accuracy, with a maximum error of 0.45 m.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19040872
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multilateration,ultra-wide-band,indoor localization,measurement,uncertainty
Beacon,Isotropy,Maximum error,Algorithm,Electronic engineering,Ultra-wideband,Engineering,Multilateration,Calibration,Repeatability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
4
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alberto Fornaser163.96
Luca Maule200.68
Alessandro Luchetti312.07
Paolo Bosetti4476.86
Mariolino De Cecco543.28