Performance analysis and improvement of the ultra-wide band localization system

Abstract

With the very wide spectrum and high resolution characteristics, ultra-wideband (UWB) communication technique is chosen various indoor localization. This paper presents the localization performance of a positioning system, which uses UWB wireless signals, and a novel method to decrease the localization error using horizontal dilution of precision (HDOP), which uses for outdoor positioning in the literature, for this system. This method focuses to eliminate the unadaptable localization points and provides elimination of UWB experimental localization results. The comparison between the proposed method localizations and the results by elimination of UWB system raw localization data with the least-squares (LS) and the non-linear regression (NLR) techniques are provided for the performance analysis. As the results, the proposed HDOP technique approximately provides 9% the better performance than the LS algorithm. In addition, the technique also provides 5% the better performance than the NLR algorithm.

Keywords

• Ultra-wide band
• Indoor localization
• Horizontal dilution of precision