High accuracy UWB localization in dense indoor environments

Proceeedings of The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-132

  Kuhn, Michael ^a   Zhang, Cemin ^a   Merkl, Brandon ^a   Yang, Depeng ^a   Wang, Yazhou ^a   Mahfouz, Mohamed ^a   Fathy, Aly ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Indoor positioning; Sequential sampling; Synchronization; TDOA; UWB localization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; JITTER; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PHASE NOISE; SAMPLING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; HIGH ACCURACIES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; INDOOR POSITIONING; LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPATH INTERFERENCES; OVERALL SYSTEMS; PHASE OFFSETS; PICO SECONDS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; ROBUST PERFORMANCES; SAMPLING RATES; SEQUENTIAL SAMPLING; SEQUENTIAL SAMPLINGS; SET-UPS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEM LEVEL SIMULATIONS; SYSTEM LEVELS; TDOA; UWB COMMUNICATIONS; UWB LOCALIZATION; UWB SYSTEMS;

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EID: 56749112329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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