Investigation of high-accuracy indoor 3-D positioning using UWB technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1316-1330

  Mahfouz, Mohamed R ^a,b   Zhang, Cemin ^a,b   Merkl, Brandon C ^a,b   Kuhn, Michael J ^a,b   Fathy, Aly E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor positioning; Localization; Sub sampling mixer; Time difference of arrival (TDOA); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MIXING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TECHNOLOGY;

CARRIER SIGNALS; DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER (DDS); EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; GAUSSIAN PULSES; HIGH ACCURACY; HIGH FIDELITY; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (LPS); MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE (MPI); OMNI DIRECTIONAL; OPTICAL TRACKING SYSTEMS; PEAK DETECTION; SAMPLING RATE (SR); SUB-MILLIMETER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM ERRORS; ULTRA- WIDEBAND (UWB); UWB ANTENNAS; UWB TECHNOLOGY; VIVALDI;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 45349088803     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.923351     Document Type: Article

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