The conventional global positioning system (GPS) can often fail to provide position determination for a mobile user in indoor and urban environments. To cope with GPS failure in such environments, a new navigation system which utilizes a terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) signal to obtain the mobile user's position is presented. Since the T-DMB transmitters in Korea construct a...

The recent advances in MEMS, embedded systems and wireless communication technologies are making the realization and deployment of networked wireless microsensors a tangible task. In this paper we study node localization, a component technology that would enhance the effectiveness and capabilities of this new class of networks. The n-hop multilateration primitive presented here, enables ad-hoc ...

An airport surface multilateration system based on the time difference of arrival (TDOA) positioning principle establishes equations to calculate the position of target through utilizing the TDOA of targets’ answering signals to the ground receiving stations. The fault with any ground receiving station will result in a significant measuring error of signal’s arrival time and have a lethal impac...

In this manuscript, we formulate the problem of denoising Time Differences of Arrival (TDOAs) in the TDOA space, i.e. the Euclidean space spanned by TDOA measurements. The method consists of pre-processing the TDOAs with the purpose of reducing the measurement noise. The complete set of TDOAs (i.e., TDOAs computed at all microphone pairs) is known to form a redundant set, which lies on a linear...

An Enhanced Two-Step Least Squared (LS) approach is proposed here for hybrid Time Difference of Arrival/Angle of Arrival (TDOA/ AOA) wireless location. Compared to the original two-step LS algorithm, the method here can provide better performance, almost the same as that of Taylor-Series estimator. Compared to the Taylor-Series solution, the method has many computational advantages, such as, li...

This paper presents an improved indoor localization system based on radio frequency (RF) and ultrasonic signals, which we named the SNSH system. This system is composed of a transmitter mounted in a mobile target and a series of receiver nodes that are managed by a coordinator. By measuring the Time Delay of Arrival (TDoA) of RF and ultrasonic signals from the transmitter, the distance from the...