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most citedA New TOA Localization and Synchronization System with Virtually Synchronized Periodic Asymmetric Ranging Network

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eess.SP2026

Hessian-matching Based Weighting for Attitude Determination Using Short-Range DoA Measurements with IMU Assistance

Chenxin Tu, Hengchuan Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +2

Accurate and reliable attitude determination (AD) is essential for unmanned vehicles operating in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. Short-range wireles…

eess.SP2025

Weighted Covariance Intersection for Range-based Distributed Cooperative Localization of Multi-Vehicle Systems

Chenxin Tu, Xiaowei Cui, Gang Liu +1

Cooperative localization enables autonomous navigation for multi-vehicle systems (MVS) in GNSS-denied environments. Among the available architectures, distributed cooperative local…

eess.SP2024

Parameterized TDOA: TDOA estimation for mobile target localization in a time-division broadcast positioning system

Chenxin Tu, Xiaowei Cui, Gang Liu +2

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurren…

eess.SP2022★ 14 cited

Efficient Rigid Body Localization based on Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion for AGV Positioning under Harsh Environment

Xinyuan An, Xiaowei Cui, Sihao Zhao +2

In real-world applications for automatic guided vehicle (AGV) navigation, the positioning system based on the time-of-flight (TOF) measurements between anchors and tags is confront…

eess.SP2022★ 4 cited

A priori knowledge-free fast positioning approach for BeiDou receivers

Sihao Zhao, Xiaowei Cui, Mingquan Lu

A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver usually needs a sufficient number of full pseudorange measurements to obtain a position solution. However, it is time-consuming…

eess.SP2022★ 18 cited

Robust Vehicle Positioning based on Multi-Epoch and Multi-Antenna TOAs in Harsh Environments

Xinyuan An, Sihao Zhao, Xiaowei Cui +2

For radio-based time-of-arrival (TOA) positioning systems applied in harsh environments, obstacles in the surroundings and on the vehicle itself will block the signals from the anc…

eess.SP2022

Sequential Doppler Shift based Optimal Localization and Synchronization with TOA

Sihao Zhao, Ningyan Guo, Xiao-Ping Zhang +2

Doppler shift is an important measurement for localization and synchronization (LAS), and is available in various practical systems. Existing studies on LAS techniques in a time di…

eess.SP2021★ 28 cited

Closed-form Two-way TOA Localization and Synchronization for User Devices with Motion and Clock Drift

Sihao Zhao, Ningyan Guo, Xiao-Ping Zhang +2

A two-way time-of-arrival (TOA system is composed of anchor nodes (ANs and user devices (UDs . Two-way TOA measurements between AN-UD pairs are obtained via round-trip communicatio…

eess.SP2021★ 40 cited

Sequential TOA-Based Moving Target Localization in Multi-Agent Networks

Qin Shi, Xiaowei Cui, Sihao Zhao +1

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, wher…

eess.SP2021★ 60 cited

A New TOA Localization and Synchronization System with Virtually Synchronized Periodic Asymmetric Ranging Network

Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +1

In this article, we design a new time-of-arrival (TOA) system for simultaneous user device (UD) localization and synchronization with a periodic asymmetric ranging network, namely…

eess.SP2021★ 15 cited

Semidefinite Programming Two-way TOA Localization for User Devices with Motion and Clock Drift

Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +1

In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. The objective f…

eess.SP2021★ 30 cited

New Closed-form Joint Localization and Synchronization using Sequential One-way TOAs

Ningyan Guo, Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang +3

It is an essential technique for the moving user nodes (UNs) with clock offset and clock skew to resolve the joint localization and synchronization (JLAS) problem. Existing iterati…

eess.SP2021★ 19 cited

Optimal Localization with Sequential Pseudorange Measurements for Moving Users in a Time Division Broadcast Positioning System

Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +1

In a time division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), a user device (UD) determines its position by obtaining sequential time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange measurements from s…

eess.SP2020★ 4 cited

Single point positioning using full and fractional pseudorange measurements from GPS and BDS

Sihao Zhao, Xiaowei Cui, Mingquan Lu

In conventional global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, usually full pseudorange measurements are required to complete a single point position fix. However, to obtain…

eess.SP2020★ 26 cited

A Closed-form Localization Method Utilizing Pseudorange Measurements from Two Non-synchronized Positioning Systems

Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +1

In a time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange based positioning system, user location is obtained by observing multiple anchor nodes (AN) at known positions. Utilizing more than one po…

eess.SP2020★ 49 cited

Optimal Two-way TOA Localization and Synchronization for Moving User Devices with Clock Drift

Sihao Zhao, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xiaowei Cui +1

In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position and timing information by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known loc…

eess.SP2018

TOA Positioning for a TDMA Localization System

Sihao Zhao, Xiaowei Cui, Shuang Xu +1

Positioning with one single communication between base stations and user devices can effectively save air time and thus expand the user volume to infinite. However, this usually de…