Workshop on Innovative Circuits, Systems and Applications for Local Position Estimation

Global positioning systems have already reached a high market volume in different application areas. The next great leap forward are systems for local position estimation. There are a vast amount of different usage scenarios offering new market potentials for established companies as well as growing start-ups. The possibilities reach from autonomously guided vehicles to cultural guiding, from industrial automation to medical healthcare. The workshop features different aspects of localization systems. The heart of FMCW time-of-arrival systems is the frequency synthesizer. Design consideration and realized RFICs will be presented. Furthermore novel mobile tags based on active reflection will be shown. Local Positioning Systems for different application scenarios will be addressed. The monitoring of vital parameters by means of distance measurements will be shown. Furthermore systems for industrial environments with strong multipath will be presented. Newest technologies are shown which enhance the robustness substantially. Chair: Thomas Ussmueller, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Electronics Engineering