Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2009, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (6): 1207-1212.

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Single link tracking scheme based on UWB localization

Xiao Zhu1,2, Xiong Hailiang1, Yu Quan1,3 & Yi Kechu1   

  1. 1. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi’an 710071, P. R. China; 2. School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Univ. of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, P. R. China; 3. Inst. of China Electronics Equipment System Engineering Corporation, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
  • Online:2009-12-28 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

To investigate the low-complex and high-precise tracking method, a novel single link tracking scheme based on UWB localization is proposed. Two antenna arrays are settled at the fixed station (FS) to receive the UWB signal from mobile terminal (MT), one FS is enough for the proposed scheme to track the MT. The UWB multipath detection algorithm for time difference of arrival (TDOA) estimation is presented and TDOA is thus adopted to estimate angle of arrival (AOA), avoiding the synchronization and complicated beamforming for AOA. The impacts of localization errors, concluding multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors are simulated for the proposed track scheme. It is demonstrated that the simulation curve can match the real target moving, and the feasibility of the proposed scheme is proved.