Real-time RFID indoor positioning system based on kalman-filter drift removal and heron-bilateration location estimation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 728-739

  Huang, Chung Hao ^a   Lee, Lun Hui ^a   Ho, Chian C ^b   Wu, Lang Long ^b   Lai, Zu Hao ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drift removal (DR); indoor positioning; location estimation (LE); radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; PATTERN MATCHING; RADIO WAVES;

ACTIVE RFID TAGS; ANDROID SMARTPHONE; DRIFT REMOVALS; INDOOR POSITIONING; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICES (RSSI); RELATIVE DISTANCES;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 85027944727     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2347691     Document Type: Article

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