Enhanced WiFi localization system based on Soft Computing techniques to deal with small-scale variations in wireless sensors

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4677-4691

  Alonso, Jose M ^a   Ocaña, Manuel ^b   Hernandez, Noelia ^b   Herranz, Fernando ^b   Llamazares, Angel ^b   Sotelo, Miguel A ^b   Bergasa, Luis M ^b   Magdalena, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy modeling; WiFi signal strength sensor; Wireless localization

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; CHAOTIC NOISE; FUZZY MODELING; FUZZY RULE-BASED SYSTEMS; GLOBAL LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION MODELS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; LOW-LEVEL CONTROLLERS; ORIENTATION ERROR; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PATH LOSS; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; PROPAGATION MODELS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; ROBOT LOCATION; ROBOT POSITIONING; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SIGNAL VARIATIONS; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; WI-FI SIGNALS; WIFI SIGNAL STRENGTH SENSOR; WIRELESS FIDELITIES; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CONTROLLERS; ERRORS; FUZZY LOGIC; LEVEL CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; SOFT COMPUTING;

WI-FI;

EID: 81155161897     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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