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Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Masters Theses

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2012

Ultra Wide Band

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Multi-Tag Access For A High Precision Ultra-Wideband Localization System, Nathan Carl Rowe Aug 2012

Multi-Tag Access For A High Precision Ultra-Wideband Localization System, Nathan Carl Rowe

Masters Theses

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless positioning systems have many advantages for track- ing and locating items in indoor environments. Surgical navigation and industrial process control are potential applications for high accuracy UWB localization systems with millimeter or sub-millimeter accuracy. I present improvements made to an existing high accuracy, multi-tag, UWB localization system. The goal of this thesis was to improve the multi-tag performance of this system while maintaining the high localization accuracy, and to utilize the UWB system for digital communications allowing the existing narrowband 2.4 GHz transceiver to be eliminated.

This thesis presents a proof-of-concept for a multi-tag, UWB localization system …