Fundamental Limits of Rigid Body Localization

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Autori principali: Führling, Niclas, Sandoval, Ivan Alexander Morales, de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas, Seco-Granados, Gonzalo, G., David González, Gonsa, Osvaldo
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author Führling, Niclas
Sandoval, Ivan Alexander Morales
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Seco-Granados, Gonzalo
G., David González
Gonsa, Osvaldo
author_facet Führling, Niclas
Sandoval, Ivan Alexander Morales
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Seco-Granados, Gonzalo
G., David González
Gonsa, Osvaldo
contents We consider a novel and general approach to easily compute the Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds (CRLBs) of rigid body localization (RBL) problem using arbitrary types of information. To that end, we adopt an information-centric construction of the Fisher information matrix (FIM), which allows capturing the contribution of each measurement towards the FIM explicitly, both in terms of input measurement types, as well as of their error distributions. Taking advantage of this approach, we derive a generic framework for evaluating the CRLB, which is applicable to arbitrary rigid body localization scenarios, and which, unlike the formulation of FIM commonly used in point-target localization, is better suited to RBL problems as it explicitly allows capturing the precision in both the translation vector and the rotation matrix (or alternative the rotation angles) of the rigid body, with respect to a reference. Examples of CRLBs obtained via the proposed approach are given in closed form, including the bound incorporating an orthonormality constraint onto the rotation matrix, which enables a straightforward adjustment of the derived bound when new measurements are added or removed. Numerical results illustrate that the derived expression correctly lower-bounds the errors of estimated localization parameters obtained via various related state-of-the-art (SotA) estimators, revealing their accuracies and suggesting that SotA RBL algorithms can still be improved.
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spellingShingle Fundamental Limits of Rigid Body Localization
Führling, Niclas
Sandoval, Ivan Alexander Morales
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Seco-Granados, Gonzalo
G., David González
Gonsa, Osvaldo
Signal Processing
We consider a novel and general approach to easily compute the Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds (CRLBs) of rigid body localization (RBL) problem using arbitrary types of information. To that end, we adopt an information-centric construction of the Fisher information matrix (FIM), which allows capturing the contribution of each measurement towards the FIM explicitly, both in terms of input measurement types, as well as of their error distributions. Taking advantage of this approach, we derive a generic framework for evaluating the CRLB, which is applicable to arbitrary rigid body localization scenarios, and which, unlike the formulation of FIM commonly used in point-target localization, is better suited to RBL problems as it explicitly allows capturing the precision in both the translation vector and the rotation matrix (or alternative the rotation angles) of the rigid body, with respect to a reference. Examples of CRLBs obtained via the proposed approach are given in closed form, including the bound incorporating an orthonormality constraint onto the rotation matrix, which enables a straightforward adjustment of the derived bound when new measurements are added or removed. Numerical results illustrate that the derived expression correctly lower-bounds the errors of estimated localization parameters obtained via various related state-of-the-art (SotA) estimators, revealing their accuracies and suggesting that SotA RBL algorithms can still be improved.
title Fundamental Limits of Rigid Body Localization
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22573