DocumentCode :
3030193
Title :
Measurement accuracy on indoor positioning system using spread spectrum ultrasonic waves
Author :
Suzuki, Akimasa ; Iyota, Taketoshi ; Choi, Yongwoon ; Kubota, Yuzuru ; Watanabe, Kazuhiro ; Yamane, Akio
Author_Institution :
Inf. Syst. Sci., Soka Univ., Tokyo
fYear :
2009
fDate :
10-12 Feb. 2009
Firstpage :
294
Lastpage :
297
Abstract :
This paper describes significant factors on spatial error distribution measured in a given indoor space with a local positioning system which utilizes spread spectrum ultrasonic waves generated by narrow directional ultrasonic transmitters. The positioning error has interestingly been discussed from the viewpoints of the dilution of precision (DOP) and the ranging error due to the transmitter directional characteristic, mainly. The indoor 3-D position is calculated by means of an algorithm using distances from the transmitters located at the four corners of the ceiling to a mobile receiver. From the result of these experiments, it has been usefully found that the positioning error can be more largely influenced on the DOP of vertical direction than it of horizontal direction and that its average is of 3.43[cm] rms for all 3-D measurable points. These findings obtained from the work imply that the 3-D indoor positioning can be realized with an acceptable centimeter-order of precision. Moreover, they suggest that it has to be considered from the viewpoints of not only the ranging error, which could be yielded by the distance measurement, but also the DOP, which is inevitably obtained by a geometrical arrangement relative to the transmitters and receiver.
Keywords :
navigation; spread spectrum communication; ultrasonic measurement; ultrasonic transmission; geometrical arrangement; indoor 3D positioning; indoor positioning system; local positioning system; measurement accuracy; mobile receiver; narrow directional ultrasonic transmitters; precision dilution; spatial error distribution; spread spectrum ultrasonic waves; Bandwidth; Costs; Information systems; Multiaccess communication; Position measurement; Robots; Spread spectrum communication; Transmitters; Ultrasonic transducers; Ultrasonic variables measurement; 3D Positioning; All-Purpose Transmitters and Receivers; Dilution of Precision; Directional Characteristics; Spread Spectrum; Ultrasonic Waves;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Robots and Agents, 2009. ICARA 2009. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wellington
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2712-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2713-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICARA.2000.4803981
Filename :
4803981
Link To Document :
بازگشت