Using a map of measurement noise to improve UWB indoor position tracking

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2228-2236

  Suski, William ^a   Banerjee, Salil ^a   Hoover, Adam ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor ranging; noise model; particle filter; position estimation; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

LOCATION DEPENDENTS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT NOISE; NOISE MODELS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; PARTICLE FILTER; POSITION ESTIMATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SIGNAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRACKING (POSITION);

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84880569605     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2256714     Document Type: Article

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