Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) estimates are used for passive acoustic single sound source localization with microphone arrays. The technique of choice in most systems for TDOA estimation is the Generalized Cross-Correlation (GCC) method [1]. For a multi-sound source scenario, cross-correlation terms of the active sound source signals as well as noise and reverberation effects complicate the...

A hybrid TDOA/AOA positioning technique for indoor ultra wideband (UWB) systems is presented in this paper. The UWB system is a potential candidate for improving the location accuracy of indoor positioning due to the fine-resolution characteristic of the UWB signals. The hybrid technique consists of extended Kalman filters (EKF’s), which process time difference of arrival (TDOA) and angle of ar...

Low-complexity least-squares (LS) estimators based on time-of-arrival (TOA) or time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements have been developed to locate a target node with the help of anchors (nodes with known positions). They require to select a reference anchor in order to cancel nuisance parameters or relax stringent synchronization requirements. Thus, their localization performance relie...

In this paper we propose a procedure for estimating the geometric configuration of an arbitrary acoustic sensor placement. It determines the position and the orientation of microphone arrays in 2D while locating a source by direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation. Neither artificial calibration signals nor unnatural user activity are required. The problem of scale indeterminacy inherent to DoA-on...

The FAA is conducting evaluations of Precision Runway Monitoring (PRM) surveillance techniques. This paper describes the evaluation results of the Multilateration/ADS-B system trials conducted at Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport (ATL) in 1997. The performance of Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) position multilateration of aircraft Mode S and Mode A/C transmissions was evaluated, in add...

This paper presents a method for locating the position of a strike on an acoustic drumhead. Near-field optical sensors were installed underneath the drumhead of a commercially available snare drum. By implementing a time difference of arrival (TDOA) algorithm, accuracy within 2cm was achieved in approximating the location of strikes. This method could be used for drum performance analysis, timb...

Dear Editor, This paper is concerned with the underwater localization based on acoustic signals. Specifically, we will focus search of an target that can constantly broadcast a beacon signal, such as black box. Common measurements for are Doppler shift [1], time arrival (ToA) [2]–[4], difference (TDoA) [5], [6], angle (AoA) [7], etc. In this investigate fundamental limits shift-Based, ToA-Based...

† Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: This paper presents a data compression method that can achieve a very large compression ratio for radar pulse trains that are to be used for time-difference-of-arrival/frequency-difference-ofarrival (TDOA/FDOA) multiple-platform emitter location; this method exploits pulse-to-pulse redundancy to get a compression ratio much higher than possible...

The development of future geolocation systems requires a fundamental understanding of the importance of various system parameters, such as the number of sensors, the SNR, bandwidth, and channel conditions. We consider the bounds on time-based geolocation accuracy when all sensors experience non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. While location accuracy generally improves with additional bandwidth...