An accurate ultra wideband (UWB) ranging for precision asset location

This paper investigates a ranging method employing ultra wideband (UWB) pulses under the existence of the line of sight (LOS) path in a multipath environment. Our method is based on the estimation of time of arrival of the first multipath. It averages the received pulses over multiple time frames, performs a correlation operation on the averaged signal, and detects the peak of the correlated signal. Our method reduces the ranging accuracy over conventional methods, and its accuracy is close to the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on even for a low SNR.

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