60 GHz short range planar RSS localization

Author

Fang, Hongzhao Ray ; Cao, Guo Peng ; Gharavol, Ebrahim A. ; Tom, Kevin ; Mouthaan, Koen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1396

Lastpage

1399

Abstract

Planar received signal strength (RSS) localization at 60.5 GHz is investigated and presented. For the first time, short range RSS localization at 60 GHz is demonstrated. The RSS between the transmitter and receiver is first measured on various base materials such as metal, wood and millimetre wave (mm-wave) absorber. RSS measurements are also performed with the transmitters and receiver elevated 20 cm above the base. It is observed that the RSS measurement on the mm-wave absorber and with the 20 cm elevation have the least multipath effects and are suitable for planar localization using RSS. Splines are fitted to the measured data and implemented in the localization algorithm for position estimation. By using either mm-wave absorber or elevating the transmitters and receiver, the mean localization error obtained for both cases is 3 cm.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave absorption; millimetre wave propagation; radio networks; RSS measurements; base materials; frequency 60 GHz; frequency 60.5 GHz; mean localization error; millimetre wave absorber; multipath effects; planar received signal strength localization; position estimation; receiver; short range planar RSS localization; splines; transmitter; Materials; Mechanical splines; Metals; Receivers; Transmitters; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7590-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-902339-22-2

Type

conf

Filename

5728524