Energy-Efficient Wireless Localization Systems

A method for localizing one or more devices in an environment make use of repeated allocation of resources for one or more sensor measurements. Each sensor measurement is characterized by the amount of resources allocated to the measurement, by a quality factor, and by direction-dependent characteristics of information that is obtainable from that sensor measurement. Knowledge of a current location of each of the one or more devices determined from past sensor measurements is characterized by a distribution, with each of the distribution containing information about the current location of the device, including the direction-dependent information and the uncertainty of the location. The allocation of resources makes use of the quality factors and direction-dependent characteristics of the sensor measurements, in combination with the distributions characterizing the current location of each of the one or more devices to allocate a variable amount of a resource to each of the one or more sensor measurements.

Researchers

Moe Win / Yuan Shen / Wenhan Dai

Departments: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Technology Areas: Computer Science: Networking & Signals / Sensing & Imaging: Optical Sensing
Impact Areas: Connected World

  • variable resource allocation for localization
    United States of America | Granted | 10,228,448

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