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Towards the implementation of a universal angle-based optical indoor positioning system Bergen, Mark; Schaal, Ferdinand S.; Klukas, Richard; Cheng, Julian; Holzman, Jonathan

Abstract

There is an emerging market today for indoor positioning systems capable of working alongside global navigation satellite systems, such as the global positioning system, in indoor environments. Many systems have been proposed in the literature but all of them have fundamental flaws that hold them back from widescale implementation. We review angle-of-arrival (AOA) and angle-difference-of-arrival (ADOA) optical indoor positioning systems which have been proven to be robust, accurate, and easily implementable. We build an AOA/ADOA optical indoor positioning system out of a simple commercial high-speed camera and white light light emitting diodes (LEDs) which operate over a working area of 1 m3, and compare its performance to other indoor positioning methods. The AOA and ADOA systems achieve positioning with low errors of 1.2 and 3.7 cm, respectively.

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Title
Towards the implementation of a universal angle-based optical indoor positioning system
Creator
Bergen, Mark; Schaal, Ferdinand S.; Klukas, Richard; Cheng, Julian; Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher
Springer
Date Issued
2018-08-13
Description
There is an emerging market today for indoor positioning systems capable of working alongside global navigation satellite systems, such as the global positioning system, in indoor environments. Many systems have been proposed in the literature but all of them have fundamental flaws that hold them back from widescale implementation. We review angle-of-arrival (AOA) and angle-difference-of-arrival (ADOA) optical indoor positioning systems which have been proven to be robust, accurate, and easily implementable. We build an AOA/ADOA optical indoor positioning system out of a simple commercial high-speed camera and white light light emitting diodes (LEDs) which operate over a working area of 1 m3, and compare its performance to other indoor positioning methods. The AOA and ADOA systems achieve positioning with low errors of 1.2 and 3.7 cm, respectively.
Subject
angle-of-arrival (AOA); angle-difference-of-arrival (ADOA); indoor positioning; optical positioning
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-08-13
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0396427
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77675
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Engineering, School of (Okanagan)
Citation
M. H. Bergen, F. S. Schaal, R. Klukas, J. Cheng, and J. F. Holzman, "Towards the implementation of a universal angle-based optical indoor positioning system," Frontiers of Optoelectronics, vol. 11, pp. 116-127, 2018.
Publisher DOI
10.1007/s12200-018-0806-0
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Springer
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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