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Local Positioning Systems

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2147

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Department of Mechanical, Computer and Aerospace Engineering, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
Interests: localization; wireless sensor networks; artificial intelligence; evolutionary computation; algorithms; Industry 4.0; manufacturing; optimization
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Department of Mechanical, Computer and Aerospace Engineering, University of León, León, Spain
Interests: localization; wireless sensor networks; artificial intelligence; evolutionary computation; algorithms
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Department of Mechanical, Computer and Aerospace Engineering, University of Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
Interests: manufacturing; process optimization; process planning; industry 4.0; collaborative robots; local positioning systems (LPS); localization; automated guided vehicle (AGV); artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,

Local positioning systems (LPS) have attracted a large amount of research interest over the last few years. Their use in highly demanded accuracy tasks allows the optimal performance of technological systems in harsh environments in which global navigation satellite systems cannot provide a stable accurate target location. Consequently, the deployment of alternative localization systems based on ad-hoc solutions to the singularities of the application scenario is critical to achieve optimal accuracy results. LPS includes a variety of applications such as surveillance, indoor localization, autonomous navigation, underwater positioning, pedestrian localization, robotics, search and rescue operations or low-level flights. LPS employ a wide range of localization methods classified through the physical property measured to determine the target localization: time, frequency, phase, power, angle or combinations of them. This Special Issue is devoted to the progress of this incipient field and to the dissemination of research results in this research community. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

  • Localization sensor networks
  • Acoustic source positioning
  • Asynchronous positioning systems
  • Underwater localization
  • Energy-based systems
  • Angle-of-arrival
  • Node location problem in wireless sensor networks
  • Crámer–Rao bound error models
  • Autonomous navigation
  • Semantic visual localization
  • Sensor fusion techniques
  • GNSS-denied environments localization
  • Taylor-based localization algorithms
  • Closed-form localization algorithms
  • Ultrawide band localization
  • Indoor navigation

Dr. Hilde Perez
Dr. Javier Díez-González
Dr. Rubén Álvarez
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Keywords

  • Localization
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Time of arrival (TOA)
  • Time difference of arrival (TDOA)
  • Asynchronous time difference of arrival
  • Node location problem
  • Angle of arrival (AOA)
  • Hybrid localization models
  • Crámer–Rao bound
  • Taylor-based localization algorithms
  • Closed-form localization algorithms
  • Sensor fusion localization
  • Ultrawide band localization
  • Energy-based positioning systems
  • Received signal strength (RSI) systems
  • Visual navigation
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Fingerprinting localization
  • Line of sight (LOS)
  • Non-line of sight (NLOS)
  • Clock error models
  • Target coverage problem
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Optimization
  • Indoor localization

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A Hybrid Bald Eagle Search Algorithm for Time Difference of Arrival Localization
by Weili Liu, Jing Zhang, Wei Wei, Tao Qin, Yuanchen Fan, Fei Long and Jing Yang
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(10), 5221; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12105221 - 21 May 2022
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Abstract
The technology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is developing rapidly, and it has been applied in diverse fields, such as medicine, environmental control, climate prediction, monitoring, etc. Location is one of the critical fields in WSNs. Time difference of arrival (TDOA) has been [...] Read more.
The technology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is developing rapidly, and it has been applied in diverse fields, such as medicine, environmental control, climate prediction, monitoring, etc. Location is one of the critical fields in WSNs. Time difference of arrival (TDOA) has been widely used to locate targets because it has a simple model, and it is easy to implement. Aiming at the problems of large deviation and low accuracy of the nonlinear equation solution for TDOA, many metaheuristic algorithms have been proposed to address the problems. By analyzing the available literature, it can be seen that the swarm intelligence metaheuristic has achieved remarkable results in this domain. The aim of this paper is to achieve further improvements in solving the localization problem by TDOA. To achieve this goal, we proposed a hybrid bald eagle search (HBES) algorithm, which can improve the performance of the bald eagle search (BES) algorithm by using strategies such as chaotic mapping, Lévy flight, and opposition-based learning. To evaluate the performance of HBES, we compared HBES with particle swarm algorithm, butterfly optimization algorithm, COOT algorithm, Grey Wolf algorithm, and sine cosine algorithm based on 23 test functions. The comparison results show that the proposed algorithm has better search performance than other reputable metaheuristic algorithms. Additionally, the HBES algorithm was used to solve the TDOA location problem by simulating the deployment of different quantities of base stations in a noise situation. The results show that the proposed method can obtain more consistent and precise locations of unknown target nodes in the TDOA localization than that of others. Full article
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