Geometry and motion-based positioning algorithms for mobile tracking in NLOS environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 254-263

  Yu, Kegen ^a   Dutkiewicz, Eryk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

constrained optimization; Cramer Rao lower bound; heading angle; mobile tracking; NLOS mitigation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DIRECTION MEASUREMENT; GPS RECEIVERS; HEADING ANGLES; MOBILE TRACKING; NETWORK-BASED; NLOS ERROR; NLOS MITIGATION; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT PROPAGATION; POSITION ESTIMATION; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; POSITIONING METHODS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT; TWO STEP METHOD; VEHICLE APPLICATIONS; VEHICLE VELOCITY;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84555187545     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.24     Document Type: Article

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