An Indoor Localization Strategy for a Mini-UAV in the Presence of Obstacles

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to mini-UAV localization in a wireless sensor network. We firstly employ the environment adaptive RSS parameters' estimation method to estimate the parameters of range estimation model. However, the direct path from the target to a beacon is blocked by obstacles in a complicated indoor environment. So the proposed method, which employs a sequential probability ratio test to identify whether the measurement contains non-line of sight (NLOS) errors, is tolerant to parameter fluctuations. Finally, a particle swarm optimization-based method is proposed to solve the established objective function. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieved relatively higher localization accuracy. In addition, the performance analyses, carried out for a realistic indoor environment, shows that the proposed method still preserves the same localization accuracy.

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