一种TDOA/AOA混合定位算法及其性能分析

在蜂窝移动通信系统中，智能天线阵列的应用使得服务基站（BS）能提供较准确的移动台（MS）电波到达角（AOA）测量值，从而可以用于对移动台的定位估计，文中对文献[1]的电波到达时间差（TDOA）定位算法进行了改进，提出了一种既能继承原算法的优良性能，又可充分利用AOA测量值信息提高定位性能的TDOA/AOA混合定位算法，该算法还具有解析表达式解。仿真结果表明，只要AOA测量值达到一定精度，该算法就能取得比文献[1]的单纯TDOA定位算法更好的性能。     

一种改进的NLOS环境下的TDOA/AOA混合定位算法

在蜂窝移动通信系统中,利用基站测量的到达时间差(TDOA)和电波到达角(AOA)的混合定位方法能够比传统的TDOA方法提供更高的定位精度。但是在非视距(NLOS)条件下,当AOA的测量误差超过一定值时,定位的误差仍然很大。该文根据NLOS传播环境下附加传播时延服从指数分布的特性,估计附加时延的均值和方差,对TDOA测量值进行重构,再以AOA方法进行辅助定位。仿真结果表明,该算法能显著提高传统的TDOA和TDOA/AOA方法在NLOS传播环境下的定位精度。     

一种量测转换的移动外辐射源多站协同跟踪算法

针对移动外辐射源跟踪问题,提出一种融合到达角(Angle of Arrival,AOA)与到达时间差(Time Difference of Arrival,TDOA)观测量的量测转换Kalman滤波(Converted Measurement Kalman Filter,CMKF)算法。首先,采用了一种考虑了传感器位置偏差影响的无源定位算法作为转换非线性的AOA与TDOA观测量至笛卡尔坐标系下观测量的方法,并证明了当AOA与TDOA的测量噪声以及传感器位置偏差都服从高斯分布且噪声强度不大时,该量测转换方法的位置转换误差能达到克拉美罗(Cramér-Rao Lower Bound,CRLB)界;其次,在量测转换的基础上构建了关于移动外辐射源的线性状态空间模型,将非线性的目标跟踪问题转化为线性滤波问题,并最终使用标准Kalman滤波器实时跟踪移动外辐射源位置。仿真结果不仅验证了量测转换精度与理论分析结论吻合,还表明了所提CMKF算法的跟踪精度同时优于扩展Kalman滤波器、无迹滤波器以及粒子滤波器。     

一种在非视距环境中的TDOA/AOA混合定位方法

提出了一种在非视距环境中的到达时间差/到达角混合定位方法。该方法使用了两步卡尔曼滤波。先用卡尔曼滤波器对到达时间测量值进行预处理,以消除TOA测量值中的NLOS误差。再把经过预处理的TOA测量值输入到用卡尔曼滤波器实现的TDOA/AOA混合定位器中进行定位。实验证明,该方法的定位误差性能优于单纯的TDOA定位方法及静态定位方法中泰勒级数展开法的误差性能。     

Radiolocation in CDMA Cellular System Based on Joint Angle and Delay Estimation

This paper considers the problem of wireless location in code-divisionmultiple-access (CDMA)cellular system. Through the method of jointly estimating angle of arrival(AOA) and time ofarrival (TOA), a novel scheme is proposed for radiolocation in multipathenvironment, especiallywhen line-of-sight (LOS) path is not available to every base station involvedin location servicefor a mobile subscriber. The Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is derived for the jointestimator. Based onsimulation results, the accuracy of the proposed wireless location scheme inCDMA system is assessed.     

Geolocation in mines with an impulse response fingerprinting technique and neural networks

The location of people, mobile terminals and equipment is highly desirable for operational enhancements in the mining industry. In an indoor environment such as a mine, the multipath caused by reflection, diffraction and diffusion on the rough sidewall surfaces, and the non-line of sight (NLOS) due to the blockage of the shortest direct path between transmitter and receiver are the main sources of range measurement errors. Unreliable measurements of location metrics such as received signal strengths (RSS), angles of arrival (AOA) and times of arrival (TOA) or time differences of arrival (TDOA), result in the deterioration of the positioning performance. Hence, alternatives to the traditional parametric geolocation techniques have to be considered. In this paper, we present a novel method for mobile station location using wideband channel measurement results applied to an artificial neural network (ANN). The proposed system, the wide band neural network-locate (WBNN-locate), learns off-line the location 'signatures' from the extracted location-dependent features of the measured channel impulse responses for line of sight (LOS) and non-line of sight (NLOS) situations. It then matches on-line the observation received from a mobile station against the learned set of 'signatures' to accurately locate its position. The location accuracy of the proposed system, applied in an underground mine, has been found to be 2 meters for 90% and 80% of trained and untrained data, respectively. Moreover, the proposed system may also be applicable to any other indoor situation and particularly in confined environments with characteristics similar to those of a mine (e.g. rough sidewalls surface).     

基于混合GPS/TDOA的CDMA网络无线定位研究

介绍了CDMA网络的无线定位技术,分析了不同技术的适用性和优缺点,提出了一种混合GPS TDOA定位方法。该方法将GPS和TDOA测量值相结合,弥补了独立的GPS和基于网络定位方法的不足,为CDMA网络无线定位提供高精度的解决方案。     

Software‐only TDOA/RTT positioning for 3G WCDMA wireless network

A hybrid location finding technique based on time difference of arrival (TDOA) with round‐trip time (RTT) measurements is proposed for a wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) network. In this technique, a mobile station measures timing from at least three base stations using user equipment receive—transmit (UE Rx—Tx) time difference and at least three base stations measure timing from the mobile station using RTT. The timing measurements of mobile and base stations are then combined to solve for both the location of the mobile and the synchronization offset between base stations. A software‐only geolocation system based on the above mobile/base stations timing measurements is implemented in Matlab platform and the performance of the system is investigated using large‐scale propagation models. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种天线阵列定位法及其仿真研究

为了克服CDMA移动台(MS)定位估计中面临的远近效应问题,该文提出了一种在服务基站(BS)附近布置一种天线阵列,采用TSOA/AOA混合定位技术对MS进行定位估计的方法,分析了采用不同定位法的GDOP分布, 并给出了相应的TSOA/AOA混合定位算法。不同条件下的仿真结果表明,只要AOA测量值达到一定精度,采用这种方法就能对MS进行准确定位。     

低轨双星无源探测系统对运动辐射源的快速检测算法

针对时频差体制的低轨圆轨道双星无源探测系统不能对运动辐射源进行定位和辐射源是否运动进行判别问题,提出了一种通过单次观测实现运动辐射源定位与运动性判别的快速算法。该算法利用信号到达角与信号达到时差联合定位结果,结合信号到达频差对平行于大地水准面的匀速运动目标进行运动性检测,使系统在观测量存在误差条件下仍能有效进行目标运动性判别。将其应用到低轨双星无源探测系统中,仿真结果表明算法对速度大于60 m/s以上的辐射源具备优于95%的正确检测概率。     

Hybrid TOA/AOA estimation error test and non‐line of sight identification in wireless location

In this paper, a modified time‐of‐arrival (TOA) estimation error test and a hybrid time‐of‐arrival/angle‐of‐arrival (TOA/AOA) estimation error test for identification of line of sight (LOS) base stations (BSs) are proposed. The proposed schemes aim to improve the location accuracy of wireless location systems suffering from the non‐line of sight (NLOS) propagation errors. The modified TOA‐based estimation error test is considered a straightforward approach in identifying the LOS‐BS set when the number of LOS BSs is greater than or equal to three. When both TOA and AOA metrics are available, hybrid TOA/AOA squares of normalized estimation errors are formulated by adopting the approximate maximum likelihood (AML) estimation. The proposed hybrid estimation error test scheme is capable of identifying the LOS/NLOS status of each BS, and performing location estimation in the situation where only two LOS BSs exist. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes are capable of correctly identifying the LOS BSs and improving the overall location accuracy. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MIMO系统中基于终端的定位算法

在无线MIMO(多输入多输出)通信系统中,基于终端的TDOA/AOA混合定位方法能够用于终端自主定位.介绍了一种基于参数信道模型的MIMO信道AOA估计方法,并将估计结果用于混合定位.仿真结果表明此方法有较小的计算复杂度,其性能优于单纯的TDOA定位方法.     

A Novel Wireless Positioning System for Seamless Internet Connectivity based on the WLAN Infrastructure

Nowadays, several positioning systems are available for outdoor localization, such as the global positioning system (GPS), assisted GPS (A-GPS), and other systems working on cellular networks, for example, time difference of arrival (TDOA), angle of arrival (AOA) and enhanced observed time difference of arrival (E-OTD). However, with the increasing use of mobile computing devices and an expansion of wireless local area networks (WLANs), there is a growing interest in indoor wireless positioning systems based on the WLAN infrastructure. Wireless positioning systems (WPS) based on this infrastructure can be used for indoor localization to determine the position of mobile users. In this paper, we present a novel wireless positioning system, based on the IEEE 802.11b standard, using a novel access point (AP) with two transceivers to improve the performance of WPS in terms of accuracy of the location estimation and to avoid service connectivity interruption. In our proposed system, the novel AP uses the second transceiver to find information from neighboring mobile stations (STAs) in the transmission range and then sends information in advance to associated APs, which estimate the location of the STA based on an internal database. We also use a TDOA technique to estimate the location of the STA when there is not enough information in the database (in this case, the STA moves into a new area where the system has not run the calibration phase). Using TDOA, the database can be generated and updated automatically. The initial results from our simulations show that the proposed system provides higher accuracy of location estimation than other related work and does not interrupt the Internet connection for end users in contrast with other proposed schemes.

一种改进的TOA/AOA混合定位算法

在蜂窝网络中利用电波到达时间（TOA）对移动台（MS）进行定位估计时，也可利用服务基站（BS）提供较准确电波到达角（AOA）信息，以提高定位性能。为此，本文对Chan提出的电波到达时间差（TDOA）定位算法进行了改进，提出了一种既继承原算法的优点，又增加AOA测量值以提高定位性能的TOA/AOA混合定位算法，分析和仿真结果表明，只要AOA测量值达到一定精度，该算法就能取得比单纯TOA定位法更好的性能。     

A transmitter diversity scheme for wideband CDMA systems based onspace-time spreading

We present a transmit diversity technique for the downlink of (wideband) direct-sequence (DS) code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The technique, called space-time spreading (STS), improves the downlink performance by using a small number of antenna elements at the base and one or more antennas at the handset, in conjunction with a novel spreading scheme that is inspired by space-time codes. It spreads each signal in a balanced way over the transmitter antenna elements to provide maximal path diversity at the receiver. In doing so, no extra spreading codes, transmit power or channel information are required at the transmitter and only minimal extra hardware complexity at both sides of the link. Both our analysis and simulation results show significant performance gains over conventional single-antenna systems and other open-loop transmit diversity techniques. Our approach is a practical way to increase the bit rate and/or improve the quality and range in the downlink of either mobile or fixed CDMA systems. A STS-based proposal for the case of two transmitter and single-receiver antennas has been accepted and will be included as an optional diversity mode in release A of the IS-2000 wideband CDMA standard     

CRLB analysis of wireless cognitive location with different short-range measurements

Because of the wide application and great market potential of location-aware services, the research of wireless location techniques for the fourth generation （4G） mobile communications is being paid more attention. Wireless cognitive location （WCL） techniques for next generation wireless networks have been proposed in recent years. This article investigates the changes of the positioning accuracy of WCL algorithm when different methods are adopted to measure the short-range （SR） information. By fJrst completing Cramer-Rao lower bound （CRLB） analysis of the WCL algorithm with SR measurements based on time of arrival （TOA） and received signal strength （RSS）, it is discovered that TOA-based or time difference of arrival （TDOA） -based SR measurement can make WCL algorithms achieve higher accuracy than RSS mode, which is also verified by numerical simulation in the article. The conclusions can instruct the design of novel WCL-based location algorithms.     

An Improved Hybrid RSS/TDOA Wireless Sensors Localization Technique Utilizing Wi-Fi Networks

This paper presents a hybrid localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that simultaneously exploits received signal strength (RSS) and time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. The accuracy and convergence reliability of the proposed hybrid scheme are also enhanced by incorporating RSS measurements from Wi-Fi networks via cooperative communications between Wi-Fi and sensor networks. To this end, two different types of estimators based on Taylor-series (TS) expansion and maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation are first proposed to solve the set of nonlinear RSS/TDOA equations taking into account measurement errors. The corresponding Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for the established scheme is then derived and utilized as a performance measure for the two estimators. Simulation results show that the proposed hybrid positioning approach significantly outperforms the previously considered localization solutions in WSNs, thanks to the joint process of the received signals’ power and time difference of arrival. The advantages of the proposed scheme in providing high location accuracy, fast convergence, low complexity implementation, and low power consumption make it an attractive localization solution via WSNs.     

基于时间差和角度的数据融合定位算法研究

定位系统中大部分现在存在的算法通常没有考虑综合利用空域、时域信息,而只选择了少量的测量信息.为了克服这个缺陷,提出了一种新的TDOA/AOA数据融合定位算法,这种算法充分利用了来自多个传感器的冗长信息,其中包括到达时间、到达方向.仿真实验结果表明与传统的算法相比,这种算法具有更好的定位精度和收敛速度,进一步改进了系统的可靠性,是一种有效、可行的定位算法.     

Using enhanced-TDOA measurement for indoor positioning

In the field of ad hoc networks, maintaining connectivity and performing efficient energy communication between several mobile stations (MS), involves the use of optimized geo localization based routing algorithms. With multipath contribution, indoor location based on a direct time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement can dramatically increase its budget error and asks for innovative solutions allowing accurate time-of-flight measurement. A natural way of exploiting multiband ultrawide-band (UWB) technology, a simple input and multiple output (SIMO) approach can lead to the measurement of an enhanced TDOA (E-TDOA) measurement for accurate positioning.     

观测站有位置误差的多维标度时频差定位算法

定位精度对观测站位置误差很敏感。论文针对观测站位置和速度有误差的情况,提出了一种加权多维标度时频差定位算法。该算法利用了多维标度定位通过特征结构和维度信息抑制噪声的优势,它将定位残差表示成测量误差和观测站位置误差的线性形式,然后通过加权最小二乘给出了目标位置和速度估计的闭式解。仿真结果表明,在小的测量误差和观测站位置误差时,该算法对目标位置和速度的估计能够达到克拉美劳下界。与两步加权最小二乘和约束总体最小二乘算法相比,该算法在测量噪声和观测站位置误差较大时有更高的定位精度。