RFID Support for Accurate 3D Localization

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1447-1459

  Maneesilp, Jullawadee ^a   Wang, Chong ^b   Wu, Hongyi ^b   Tzeng, Nian Feng ^b  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D space; antennas; object localization; radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and readers; range free schemes; spherical models

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; OBJECT LOCALIZATION; RADIO-FREQUENCY-IDENTIFICATION TAGS (RFID); RANGE FREE; SPHERICAL MODELS;

ANTENNAS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84878419314     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2012.83     Document Type: Article

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