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Multi-Tag Access For A High Precision Ultra-Wideband Localization System, Nathan Carl Rowe
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 …
A Study Of Environment Noise In Ultra-Wideband Indoor Position Tracking, William Suski
A Study Of Environment Noise In Ultra-Wideband Indoor Position Tracking, William Suski
All Dissertations
This work is motivated by the problem of improving the accuracy of indoor ultra-wideband (UWB) position tracking through the study of the environment noise that affects such a system. Current systems can provide accuracy in the range of 30-100 cm in a small building, suitable for applications that require rough room-level precision such as asset tracking and surveillance. Our long-term goal is to improve the accuracy to 1 cm or better, expanding potential applications to telepresence, augmented reality, training and entertainment.
This work investigates the possibility of systematically observing the measurement noise of an UWB position tracking system and building …
Target Localization In Passive And Active Systems : Performance Bonds, Vlad Mihai Chiriac
Target Localization In Passive And Active Systems : Performance Bonds, Vlad Mihai Chiriac
Dissertations
The main goal of this dissertation is to improve the understanding and to develop ways to predict the performance of localization techniques as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and of system parameters. To this end, lower bounds on the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) performance are studied. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for coherent passive localization of a near-field source is derived. It is shown through the Cramer-Rao bound that, the coherent localization systems can provide high accuracies in localization, to the order of carrier frequency of the observed signal. High accuracies come to a price of having a highly …
Passive Acoustic Vessel Localization, Pasang Sherpa Suwal
Passive Acoustic Vessel Localization, Pasang Sherpa Suwal
Dissertations and Theses
This thesis investigates the development of a low-cost passive acoustic system for localizing moving vessels to monitor areas where human activities such as fishing, snorkeling and poaching are restricted. The system uses several off-the-shelf sensors with unsynchronized clocks where the Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) or time delay is extracted by cross-correlation of the signal between paired sensors. The cross-correlation function uses phase correlation or Phase Transform (PHAT) which whitens the cross-spectrum in order to de-emphasize dominant frequency components. Using the locations of pairs of sensors as foci, hyperbolic equations can be defined using the time delay between them. With …