Indoor Positioning System Based on a PSD Detector, Precise Positioning of Agents in Motion Using AoA Techniques

Here, we present an indoor positioning system (IPS) for detecting mobile agents based on a single Position Sensitive Device sensor (PSD) sited in the environment and InfraRed Emitter Diode (IRED) located on mobile agents. The main goal of the work is to develop an alternative IPS to other sensing te...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2017-09, Vol.17 (9), p.2124
Main Authors: Rodríguez-Navarro, David, Lázaro-Galilea, José Luis, De-La-Llana-Calvo, Álvaro, Bravo-Muñoz, Ignacio, Gardel-Vicente, Alfredo, Tsirigotis, Georgios, Iglesias-Miguel, Juan
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Language:English
Subjects:
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Angle of arrival
AoA
Computation
indoor positioning system
multi-agent localization
optical signal
Position sensing
PSD
Sensors
Signal processing
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Summary:Here, we present an indoor positioning system (IPS) for detecting mobile agents based on a single Position Sensitive Device sensor (PSD) sited in the environment and InfraRed Emitter Diode (IRED) located on mobile agents. The main goal of the work is to develop an alternative IPS to other sensing technologies, cheaper, easier to install and with a low computational load to obtain a high rate of measurements per second. The proposed IPS has the capacity to accurately determine 3D position from the angle of arrival (AoA) of the signal received at the PSD sensor. In this first approach to the method, the agents are considered to move along a plane. We propose two alternatives for determining position: in one, tones are emitted on a frequency unique to each transmitter, while in the other, sequences are emitted.The paper proposes and set up a very simple and easy to deploy system capable of performing 3D positioning with a single analog sensor, obtaining a high accurate positioning and a reduced execution time for the signal processing. The low computational load of the IPS makes it possible to obtain a very high position update rate (more than 100 times per second), yielding millimetric accuracies.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s17092124