Wireless sensor network localization is an essential problem that has attracted increasing attention due to wide requirements such as in-door navigation, autonomous vehicle, intrusion detection, and s...
Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an important component of a cyberphysical system. Locating node information is a crucial problem for WSN. Currently, distance vector-hop method (DV-Hop), one of popula...
Wireless location is a key technology for wireless sensor networks (WSN). This paper firstly describes a wireless location system based on nanoLOC chip which can provide both high-accuracy location an...
Wireless distance measurement techniques based on portable embedded platforms are expected to play a key role in several industrial and domestic applications. In this paper the ranging accuracy of a c...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become one of the most popular and promising means for both military and civilian posts and academic research areas. Localization of the UAVs and persistent tracki...
This work presents Semi-Supervised SLAM - a method for developing a map suitable for coarse localization within an underground environment with minimal human intervention, with system characteristics ...
This paper proposes a localization technique for mobile robots using a wireless sensor network (WSN), based on chirp spread spectrum ranging and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). A discrete-time H∞ ...
This paper evaluates the performance of the networked munitions communication and localization. The key requirements of networked munitions are proposed and analyze the possible technologies for local...
The wireless assistance system safe@home builds a wireless sensor network which enables the localisation of a person wearing a tag and to collect the person's vital data. Furthermore it provides the o...
The increasing diffusion of mobile and portable devices provided with wireless connectivity makes the problem of distance measurement based on radio-frequency technologies increasingly important for t...
The challenge of target tracking is one of the most important applications of WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). Traditionally, Kalman filter and its derivatives are some of the most popular algorithms ...
The aerial robots represent an interested and rich area of research because they are very useful to perform complex tasks such as localization and tracking targets. To develop blimp system that is app...
Robustly and accurately localizing vehicles in underground mines is particularly challenging due to the unavailability of GPS, variable and often poor lighting conditions, visual aliasing in long tunn...
Proximity sensors are increasingly used in distributed monitoring applications, e.g. for surveillance purposes. However, most of existing solutions have two different, usually contrasting requirements...
Oriented cuckoo search algorithm (OCS) is a newly proposed variant of cuckoo search algorithm, to avoid the premature convergence, weighted-based oriented cuckoo search (WOCS) is proposed which is a c...
Nowadays, indoor ranging and localization have become necessary in daily life. Due to the multi-path propagation and noise in the indoor environment, phase domain ranging method using multi-frequency ...
Network entities with synchronized clocks are an enabler for many interesting and innovative applications. Localization of mobile WLAN devices by means of propagation delay measurements and position c...
Localization is a key aspect of emergent applications in the medical, industrial and consumer field. In this article we survey state of the art, identify current challenges and issues for localization...
Indoor localization is important for medical and industrial application as well as for wireless emergency and security systems. For such applications an accuracy within a few meters is desired. Availa...
Indoor localization is important for logistics, industrial applications and for several consumer applications. In the area of logistics, e.g. warehouses, localization accuracy within a few meters is d...