Design of an IR-UWB Indoor Localization System Based on a Novel RTT Ranging Estimator

Author

Arrue, Naiara ; Losada, Markos ; Zamora-Cadenas, Leticia ; Jiménez-Irastorza, Ainara ; Vélez, Igone

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Dept., Univ. of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

18-25 July 2010

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

57

Abstract

This article presents an indoor localization system based on Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wideband. A novel peak detection technique is proposed to be used for Round-Trip-Time ranging. Additionally, the accuracy and complexity of different positioning algorithms are studied. The effect of different configurations of the fixed and mobile transceivers on the accuracy is also analyzed. Simulations have been performed using realistic multipath channel models and the parameters of the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. These simulations show that the proposed localization system is able to achieve enough accuracy for an ambient assisted living application in any of the analyzed configurations.

Keywords

indoor radio; mobile computing; mobile radio; personal area networks; signal detection; transceivers; ultra wideband communication; IEEE 802.15.4a standard; IR-UWB indoor localization system; RTT ranging estimator; impulse radio; mobile transceiver; multipath channel; peak detection technique; round-trip-time ranging; Accuracy; Complexity theory; Distance measurement; Equations; Signal to noise ratio; Simulation; Transceivers; Impulse-radio ultra-wideBand; positioning algorithms; ranging algorithms; round-trip-time;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Device Technologies and Applications (SENSORDEVICES), 2010 First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7474-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SENSORDEVICES.2010.17

Filename

5632108