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Main Authors: Acuna-Condori, Kevin, Béchadergue, Bastien, Guan, Hongyu, Chassagne, Luc
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29400
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author Acuna-Condori, Kevin
Béchadergue, Bastien
Guan, Hongyu
Chassagne, Luc
author_facet Acuna-Condori, Kevin
Béchadergue, Bastien
Guan, Hongyu
Chassagne, Luc
contents State-of-the-art optical wireless positioning (OWP) commonly reaches centimeter-level accuracy by depending on dense multi-light-emitting diodes (LED) infrastructures, photodiode (PD) arrays, or image-sensor receivers, incurring hardware complexity and deployment cost. This paper introduces a single beam-steered LED, single-PD OWP architecture that achieves three-dimensional (3D) localization without receiver rotation, cameras, or PD arrays; the core idea is to steer the transmitter through K known orientations and exploit the resulting received-signal-strength variations at the PD to estimate LED-to-PD direction and distance. We derive a composite Cramer-Rao lower bound and position-error bound (PEB) for the joint observation model, and cast the steering-pattern design as a genetic algorithm that minimizes the PEB over a 3D testbed. We develop both model-based a constrained nonlinear estimator and closed-form direction estimators: a statistically efficient generalized least squares solution, and a lightweight weighted least squares approximation. Simulations demonstrate centimeter-level accuracy for 3D OWP with a single beam-steered LED and a single PD.
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spellingShingle Model-Based Beam-Steered Optical Wireless Positioning with Single-LED Single-Photodiode for 3D Localization
Acuna-Condori, Kevin
Béchadergue, Bastien
Guan, Hongyu
Chassagne, Luc
Optics
Information Theory
Signal Processing
State-of-the-art optical wireless positioning (OWP) commonly reaches centimeter-level accuracy by depending on dense multi-light-emitting diodes (LED) infrastructures, photodiode (PD) arrays, or image-sensor receivers, incurring hardware complexity and deployment cost. This paper introduces a single beam-steered LED, single-PD OWP architecture that achieves three-dimensional (3D) localization without receiver rotation, cameras, or PD arrays; the core idea is to steer the transmitter through K known orientations and exploit the resulting received-signal-strength variations at the PD to estimate LED-to-PD direction and distance. We derive a composite Cramer-Rao lower bound and position-error bound (PEB) for the joint observation model, and cast the steering-pattern design as a genetic algorithm that minimizes the PEB over a 3D testbed. We develop both model-based a constrained nonlinear estimator and closed-form direction estimators: a statistically efficient generalized least squares solution, and a lightweight weighted least squares approximation. Simulations demonstrate centimeter-level accuracy for 3D OWP with a single beam-steered LED and a single PD.
title Model-Based Beam-Steered Optical Wireless Positioning with Single-LED Single-Photodiode for 3D Localization
topic Optics
Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29400