UWB-based Single Reference Point Positioning System

Conference: Mobilkommunikation – Technologien und Anwendungen - 22. ITG-Fachtagung
05/09/2017 - 05/10/2017 at Osnabrück, Deutschland

Proceedings: Mobilkommunikation – Technologien und Anwendungen

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Pelka, Mathias; Leugner, Swen; Cimdins, Marco; Schwegmann, Holger (Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Hellbrück, Horst (Lübeck University of Applied Sciences & CoSA Center of Excellence, Germany)

Abstract:
Indoor positioning enables new applications, for instance monitoring of goods in smart factories. For such applications, indoor positioning requires cost-effective solutions with high accuracy. State-of-the-art positioning systems are expensive due to high infrastructure and maintenance costs. In this paper we suggest an innovative and cost effective UWB-based single reference point positioning system using multiple antennas. We compare lateration and hyperbolic lateration as positioning methods and present efficient algorithms for UWB-based single reference point positioning systems. We present theoretical limits based on the Cramer-Rao lower bound and derive an error estimation as well as evaluation results. Our measurements indicate that decimeter accuracy is possible.