A data fusion technique for wireless ranging performance improvement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-37

  MacIi, David ^a   Colombo, Alessio ^a   Pivato, Paolo ^a   Fontanelli, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; estimation uncertainty; Kalman filtering; wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA FUSION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; RSS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; CHIP MANUFACTURERS; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; DATA FUSION ALGORITHM; DATA FUSION TECHNIQUE; EMBEDDED PROTOTYPE; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; ISOTROPIC ANTENNAS; KALMAN-FILTERING; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PORTABLE DEVICE; PROXIMITY DETECTION; RADIO CHIPS; RADIOFREQUENCY TECHNOLOGY; RANGING ACCURACY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS; VIABLE SOLUTIONS; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES; WIRELESS MODULE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84871022679     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2209918     Document Type: Article

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