Development of indoor positioning system with ultrasonic and infrared signals

Author

Yucel, Hikmet ; Ozkir, Taha ; Edizkan, Rifat ; Yazici, Ahmet

Author_Institution

R&D Dept., Inovasyon Muhendislik Tek. Gel. Dan. San. Tic. Ltd. Sti, Eskisehir, Turkey

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Position measurement is one of the primal problems in wide range of applications such as air/land/marine vehicles tracking, automation systems, and equipment tracking in medical sector, robotics and sensor networks. Location information in outdoor application can be easily obtained from well-known systems such as GPS and GLONASS. Since GPS signal is not available in indoor area, several positioning systems have been developed for. But there is not a consensus for indoor positioning systems like the outdoor. In this study, a positioning system that uses ultrasonic and infrared signals is designed and implemented. The system is tested in 4m² coverage range and it is observed that the maximum absolute error is less than +/-2 cm.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; distance measurement; position measurement; GLONASS; GPS; automation systems; equipment tracking; indoor positioning system; infrared signals; location information; position measurement; sensor networks; ultrasonic signals; vehicles tracking; Acoustics; Mobile communication; Radio frequency; Receivers; Robot sensing systems; Transmitters; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Indoor positioning; Time of Flight; Ultrasonic-IR signal based localization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Trabzon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1446-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INISTA.2012.6246983

Filename

6246983