Using Wireless Ethernet for Localization

Authors

Andrew M. Ladd
Kostas E. Bekris
Guillaume Marceau
Algis Rudys
Dan S. Wallach
Lydia E. Kavraki

Abstract

IEEE 802.11b wireless Ethernet is rapidly becoming the standard for in-building and short-range wireless communication. Many mobile devices such as mobile robots, laptops and PDAs already use this protocol for wireless communication. Many wireless Ethernet cards measure the signal strength of incoming packets. This paper investigates the feasibility of implementing a localization system using this sensor. Using a Bayesian localization framework, we show experiments demonstrating that off-the-shelf wireless hardware can accurately be used for location sensing and tracking with about one meter precision in a wireless-enabled office building.

Published

2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (Lausanne, Switzerland), September 2002.

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@InProceedings{iros2002localization,
        author = "Andrew M. Ladd and Kostas E. Bekris and Guillaume Marceau and Algis Rudys and Dan S. Wallach and Lydia E. Kavraki",
        title = "Using Wireless {Ethernet} for Localization",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems",
        year = 2002,
        address = "Lausanne, Switzerland",
        month = sep
}