TOA UWB Positioning with Two Receivers Using Known Indoor Features

Jan KIETLINSKI-ZALESKI  Takaya YAMAZATO  Masaaki KATAYAMA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E93-B   No.12   pp.3624-3631
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3624
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Sensing
Keyword: 
UWB,  positioning,  ToA,  indoor,  

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Summary: 
Ultra-Wideband is an attractive technology for short range positioning, especially indoors. However, for normal Time of Arrival (ToA) positioning, at least three receivers with unblocked direct path to the transmitter are required. A requirement that is not always met. In this work, a novel algorithm for ToA positioning using only two receivers is presented. This is possible by exploiting the knowledge of some of the indoor features, namely positions of big flat reflective surfaces, for example ceiling and walls. The proposed algorithm was tested using data from a measurement campaign.