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In this paper, we propose a novel acoustic localization system using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) mobile devices. Acoustic-based systems have advantages in terms of accuracy and cost. However, the measurable positioning area is limited because of the signal attenuation and the poor performance of microphones embedded in COTS mobile devices. Our system leverages a transmission scheme that combines time-division multiple-access (TDMA) and frequency-division multiple-access (FDMA) techniques to address the limitation. In the proposed approach, each speaker transmits different band chirps in a predefined sequence to mitigate multiple-access interference. A COTS device receives modulated signals via a built-in microphone. We exploit the received signals and estimate the position by calculating time difference of arrival (TDoA). We were able to reduce the error to a 90th-percentile error of 46.26 cm at a measurement point that could not be estimated by FDMA-based positioning. The experiment results show that our system is more accurate and has a larger area of positioning capability compared with FDMA-based positioning.
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This research was supported by JSPS Kakenhi Grant Numbers 19H04222 and 20K21781.
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Suzaki, T., Nakamura, M., Murakami, H., Watanabe, H., Hashizume, H., Sugimoto, M. (2022). Expanding the Positioning Area for Acoustic Localization Using COTS Mobile Devices. In: Hara, T., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_23
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