Ubiquitous UWB Ranging Error Mitigation With Application to Infrastructure-Free Cooperative Positioning

Ultra wideband (UWB) signals are a promising choice for indoor positioning applications, since they are able to penetrate walls to a certain extent. Nevertheless, signal reflections and non-line-of-sight propagation cause bias in the measured range. This ranging error can be corrected with machine l...

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Main Authors: Maija Makela, Martta-Kaisa Olkkonen, Martti Kirkko-Jaakkola, Toni Hammarberg, Tuomo Malkamaki, Jesperi Rantanen, Sanna Kaasalainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10490099/
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Summary:Ultra wideband (UWB) signals are a promising choice for indoor positioning applications, since they are able to penetrate walls to a certain extent. Nevertheless, signal reflections and non-line-of-sight propagation cause bias in the measured range. This ranging error can be corrected with machine learning (ML) methods, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, these ML models often generalize poorly between different environments. In this work we present an instance-based transfer learning (TL) approach, that enables generalizing a CNN-based ranging error mitigation approach to a new situation with only a few unlabeled training samples. The performance of the UWB error correction approach is demonstrated in a real-life infrastructure-free cooperative positioning setting.
ISSN:2832-7322