Indoor and Outdoor Vehicle Localization using UWB Transceivers

In this paper, an experiment is described which involved the usage of a set-up of 4 development boards based on Ultra Wide Band transceiver DW1000: three of them are configured as anchors while the forth one is configured as a tag. It is assumed that the tag is placed on a fixed reference (e.g. a traffic sign) and the anchors are placed on a moving vehicle (e.g on three corners of the vehicle). The paper deals with the improvement of the measurement of the distance between the tag and the anchors starting from the firmware of the transceiver. The actual firmware is modified such that the measurement sequence is performed faster in order to improve the accuracy of the localization.

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