Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 116(2018)

Toward the implementation of a universal angle-based optical indoor positioning system

Mark H.1, Ferdinand S.2, Richard KLUKAS1, Julian CHENG1、*, and Jonathan F.1
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  • 1Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
  • 2Technical University of Denmark, Anker Engelunds Vej 1 Bygning 101A, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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    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-differenceof-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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    Mark H., Ferdinand S., Richard KLUKAS, Julian CHENG, Jonathan F.. Toward the implementation of a universal angle-based optical indoor positioning system[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11(2): 116

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Feb. 1, 2018

    Accepted: Mar. 19, 2018

    Published Online: Oct. 7, 2018

    The Author Email: CHENG Julian (julian.cheng@ubc.ca)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-018-0806-0

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