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Robust Sensor Geometry Design in Sky-Wave Time-Difference-of-Arrival Localization Systems

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Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS 2019)

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This paper studies the sensor geometry design problem of sky-wave time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) localization systems under non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenario where signals are reflected by ionosphere-layer before arriving at sensors. Traditionally, the optimal sensor geometries for line-of-sight (LOS) scenarios have been derived. However, ionosphere-layer heights (IHs) are generally inaccurately known. IH errors can severely degrade localization performance but the joint estimation of IHs and target location is conventionally an ill-conditioning problem. To solve this problem, we propose a grouped sensor geometry, which enables the joint estimation of IHs and target location. In this way, we improve the robustness against IH errors in sky-wave TDOA localization. Theoretical analysis and performance comparison validate that the superiority of our proposed grouped sensor geometry.

Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61831009.

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  1. Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

    He Ma, Xing-peng Mao & Tie-nan Zhang

  2. The Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Monitoring and Information Processing Ministry of Industry and Information, Harbin, China

    He Ma & Xing-peng Mao

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

    Qilian Liang

  2. College of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

    Wei Wang

  3. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China

    Xin Liu

  4. School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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  5. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

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  6. College of Physical and Electronic Information, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

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Ma, H., Mao, Xp., Zhang, Tn. (2020). Robust Sensor Geometry Design in Sky-Wave Time-Difference-of-Arrival Localization Systems. In: Liang, Q., Wang, W., Liu, X., Na, Z., Jia, M., Zhang, B. (eds) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 571. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9409-6_278

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