scholarly journals Localizing Jammer in an Indoor Environment by Estimating Signal Strength and Kalman Filter

2018 ◽  
Vol 09 (02) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed Aldosari ◽  
Mohamed Zohdy
2010 ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Julian Lategahn ◽  
Frank Kuenemund ◽  
Christof Roehrig

In this paper a method for estimation of position and motion of a mobile robot in an indoor environment is introduced. The proposed method uses WLAN signal strength to estimate the global position of a mobile robot in an office building. Thus signal strengths of the received access points are stored in the radio map in calibration phase. In localization phase the stored values are compared with actually measured one’s. Therefore a fingerprinting algorithm, that was introduced before, is used. The improvement of the presented work is the multi sensor fusion using Kalman filter, which enhances the accuracy of fingerprinting algorithms and tracking of the robot. For this reason odometric and gyroscopic sensors of the robot are fused with the estimated position of the fingerprinting algorithm. The paper presents the experimental results of measurements made in an office building.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 155014771986613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Myung Lee ◽  
Boney Labinghisa

In indoor positioning techniques, Wi-Fi is one of the most used technology because of its availability and cost-effectiveness. Access points are usually the main source of Wi-Fi signals in an indoor environment. If access points are optimized to cover the indoor area, this could improve Wi-Fi signal distribution. This article proposed an alternative to optimizing access point placement and distribution by introducing virtual access points that can be virtually placed in any part of the indoor environment without installation of actual access points. Virtual access points will be created heuristically by correlating received signal strength indicator of already existing access points and through linear regression. After introducing virtual access points in the indoor environment, next will be the addition of filters to improve signal fluctuation and reduce noise interference. Kalman filter has been previously used together with virtual access point and showed improvement by decreasing error distance of Wi-Fi fingerprinting results. This article also aims to include particle filter in the system to further improve localization and test its effectiveness when paired with Kalman filter. The performance testing of the algorithm in different indoor environments resulted in 3.18 and 3.59 m error distances. An improvement was added on the system by using relative distances instead of received signal strength indicator values in distance estimation and gave an error distance average of 1.85 m.


Location estimation in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is mandatory to achieve high network efficiency. Identifying the positions of sensors is an uphill task as monitoring nodes are involved in estimation and localization. Clustered Positioning for Indoor Environment (CPIE) is proposed for estimating the position of the sensors using a Cluster Head (CH) based mechanism. The CH estimates the number of neighbor nodes in each floor of the indoor environment. It sends the requests to the cluster members and the positions are estimated based on the Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSIs) from the members of the cluster. The performance of the proposed scheme is analyzed for both stable and mobile conditions by varying the number of floors. Experimental results show that the propounded scheme offers better network efficiency and reduces delay and localization error


2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-189
Author(s):  
Nagham Hamid

This paper presents a simulation study of the outdoor and indoor propagation losses utilizing 5G small cells at suggested millimeter-wave frequencies of 26 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz. The environment of this study is conducted with penetration loss of new and old building characteristics. The simulation is performed with help of 3D ray tracing model NVIDIA OptiX engine and MATLAB. The targeted frequencies are 26 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz that specified by International Telecommunication Union ITU-R organization. The simulation routes are investigated in term of signal strength at multiple receiving points. The strength angular spectrum are represented for fixed points and the power receiving delay is presented by their attributes. The simulated responses showed an efficient and sufficient outdoor and indoor service might be provisioned at 26 GHz and 28 GHz. The received signals at 28 GHz and 38 GHz are found around 4.5 dB and 11 dB with comparison with signal received level at 26 GHz. However, at 38 GHz the indoor signal strength and power receiving delays demonstrate a weak signal reception which offers a poor solution to indoor user by outside fixed base station.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Yang Yan ◽  
Zhengjian Li ◽  
Long Cheng

The main factor affecting the localization accuracy is nonline of sight (NLOS) error which is caused by the complicated indoor environment such as obstacles and walls. To obviously alleviate NLOS effects, a polynomial fitting-based adjusted Kalman filter (PF-AKF) method in a wireless sensor network (WSN) framework is proposed in this paper. The method employs polynomial fitting to accomplish both NLOS identification and distance prediction. Rather than employing standard deviation of all historical data as NLOS detection threshold, the proposed method identifies NLOS via deviation between fitted curve and measurements. Then, it processes the measurements with adjusted Kalman filter (AKF), conducting weighting filter in the case of NLOS condition. Simulations compare the proposed method with Kalman filter (KF), adjusted Kalman filter (AKF), and Kalman-based interacting multiple model (K-IMM) algorithms, and the results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method. Moreover, experimental results obtained from a real indoor environment validate the simulation results.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6582
Author(s):  
SeYoung Kang ◽  
TaeHyun Kim ◽  
WonZoo Chung

We present a novel hybrid localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks in the absence of knowledge regarding the transmit power and path-loss exponent. Transmit power and the path-loss exponent are critical parameters for target localization algorithms in wireless sensor networks, which help extract target position information from the received signal strength. In the absence of information on transmit power and path-loss exponent, it is critical to estimate them for reliable deployment of conventional target localization algorithms. In this paper, we propose a simultaneous estimation of transmit power and path-loss exponent based on Kalman filter. The unknown transmit power and path-loss exponent are estimated using a Kalman filter with the tentatively estimated target position based solely on angle information. Subsequently, the target position is refined using a hybrid method incorporating received signal strength measurements based on the estimated transmit power and path-loss exponent. Our proposed algorithm accurately estimates transmit power and path-loss exponent and yields almost the same target position accuracy as the simulation results confirm, as the hybrid target localization algorithms with known transmit power and path-loss exponent. Simulation results confirm the proposed algorithm achieves 99.7% accuracy of the target localization performance with known transmit power and path-loss exponent, even in the presence of severe received signal strength measurement noise.


2014 ◽  
Vol 555 ◽  
pp. 327-333
Author(s):  
Teodora Gîrbacia

In this paper is presented a comparative study between using extended Kalman filter and particle filter applied on SLAM algorithm for an autonomous mobile robot. The robot navigates through an unknown indoor environment in which are placed 80 landmarks and it creates the map of the environment. Because the sensors placed on the robots produce measurement errors it is necessary to use Bayesian filters as the Kalman filter or the particle filter. An application was implemented that shows the estimated measurement errors produced while using both filters in order to create the estimated map of the closed environment in which the autonomous mobile robot is navigating.


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