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Main Authors: Li, Chenglong, Lu, Zukun, Huang, Long, Ni, Shaojie, Sun, Guangfu, Tanghe, Emmeric, Joseph, Wout
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17716
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author Li, Chenglong
Lu, Zukun
Huang, Long
Ni, Shaojie
Sun, Guangfu
Tanghe, Emmeric
Joseph, Wout
author_facet Li, Chenglong
Lu, Zukun
Huang, Long
Ni, Shaojie
Sun, Guangfu
Tanghe, Emmeric
Joseph, Wout
contents In this paper, we investigate ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and tracking in cluttered environments. Instead of mitigating the multipath, we exploit the specular reflections to enhance the localizability and improve the positioning accuracy. With the assistance of the multipath, it is also possible to achieve localization purposes using fewer anchors or when the line-of-sight propagations are blocked. Rather than using single-value distance, angle, or Doppler estimates for the localization, we model the likelihoods of both the line-of-sight and specular multipath components, namely soft multipath information, and propose the multipath-assisted probabilistic UWB tracking algorithm. Experimental results in a cluttered industrial scenario show that the proposed algorithm achieves 46.4 cm and 33.1 cm 90th percentile errors in the cases of 3 and 4 anchors, respectively, which outperforms conventional methods with more than 61.8% improvement given fewer anchors and strong multipath effect.
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spellingShingle Soft Multipath Information-Based UWB Tracking in Cluttered Scenarios: Preliminaries and Validations
Li, Chenglong
Lu, Zukun
Huang, Long
Ni, Shaojie
Sun, Guangfu
Tanghe, Emmeric
Joseph, Wout
Signal Processing
In this paper, we investigate ultra-wideband (UWB) localization and tracking in cluttered environments. Instead of mitigating the multipath, we exploit the specular reflections to enhance the localizability and improve the positioning accuracy. With the assistance of the multipath, it is also possible to achieve localization purposes using fewer anchors or when the line-of-sight propagations are blocked. Rather than using single-value distance, angle, or Doppler estimates for the localization, we model the likelihoods of both the line-of-sight and specular multipath components, namely soft multipath information, and propose the multipath-assisted probabilistic UWB tracking algorithm. Experimental results in a cluttered industrial scenario show that the proposed algorithm achieves 46.4 cm and 33.1 cm 90th percentile errors in the cases of 3 and 4 anchors, respectively, which outperforms conventional methods with more than 61.8% improvement given fewer anchors and strong multipath effect.
title Soft Multipath Information-Based UWB Tracking in Cluttered Scenarios: Preliminaries and Validations
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17716