RELATE PROJECT

(Project description)

INFRARED

• Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Bill N. Schilit, Michael Tso, Roy Want. (PARCTAB)
  An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers. 
  USENIX Symposium on Mobile and Location Independent ComputingAn Infrared Network for Mobile Computers 1993.

  • Xerox Infrared Data Infrastructure with 19.2kbps room-level IR communication using CSMA.

  • Project Page (last update 1995)

  • The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment

• Roy Want, Andy Hopper, Veronica Falcão and Jonathan Gibbons 
  The Active Badge Location System.

  • User wear IR Beacon, Beacon Period 15sec, Duty Cycle=0.6%, Not triggered, IR uses unslotted Aloha, room-level
    

• Aggelos Bletsas, Vimal Bhalodia, Marios Mihalakis and Ilia Mirkin
  Network Beatles: A Distributed Wireless Network Platform for Tangible User Interfaces

  • Very preliminary work on tangible user interfaces using multiple infrared transceivers. Onmidirectionality not solved. No measurements

• Albert Krohn, Michael Beigl, Mike Hazas, Hans Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt
  Using Fine-Grained Infrared Positioning to Support the Surface-Based Activities of Mobile Users 

  • summary

• Muneyuki Sakata, Hiroshi Sasaki, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Yoshitsugu Manabe, Kunihiro Chihara
  Active IR-Tag User Location System for MR Collaborative Environment

  • the ALTAIR project page

  • using IR beacons connected to a PDA. The PDA is controlled via WiFi and a server. Location is measured with the help of a camera (20fps). Location accuracy was (indoor) 30 cm min and 9cm average.
    

ULTRASOUND

• Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty, and Hari Balakrishnan
  The Cricket Location-Support System

  • Beacons send RF and Ultrasound signal, RF protocol is unslotted, randomized Aloha (no carrier sense), different interference situations studied. Mainly designed to resolve partial-room granularity (typ. 1x1m)

• Min Chen, Fred Cheng, Ram Gudavalli 
  Precision and Accuracy in an Indoor Localization System

  • Min Chen, Fred Cheng, Ram Gudavalli (extension to cricket), Main Target Application: Navigation assistance, target accuracy: <20cm, beacons controlled by receiver

• Yasuhiro FUKUJU, Masateru MINAMI, Hiroyuki MORIKAWA, and Tomonori AOYAMA
  DOLPHIN: An Autonomous Indoor Positioning System in Ubiquitous Computing Environment

  • There are several papers on DOLPHIN with different aspects of the system
    

• Mike Hazas and Andy Ward. 
  A Novel Broadband Ultrasonic Location System

  • summary

• ENALAB @ Yale University (Prof. Savvides)

  • Project page

  • Lots of papers on the publications page :http://www.eng.yale.edu/enalab/publications.htm

• Andy Ward, Alan Jones, Andy Hopper
  A New Location Technique for the Active Office

  • Active Bat, also Project page, System: Server sends out RF, mobile nodes find RF, respond with Ultrasound, Receiverinfrastructure locates mobile device. High Accuracy: 95% <10cm
    

• Grabowski, R., Khosla, P., 
  Localization Techniques for a Team of Small Robots

  • Millibots Project Page
    

• Calamari Project page 

  • Kamin Whitehouse, Chris Karlof, Alec Woo, Fred Jiang, and David Culler
    The Effects of Ranging Noise on Multihop Localization: An Empirical Study (IPSN '05)
    

RSSI

• Paramvir Bahl and Venkata N. Padmanabhan
  RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System

  • microsoft's radar system

• Jeffrey Hightower, Chris Vakili, Gaetano Borriello and Roy Want
  Design and Calibration of the SpotON Ad-Hoc Location Sensing System
  

  • summary

RADIO TOF/UWB

• TV-GPS 
  http://www.rosum.com

  • summary

• UBISENSE
  http://www.ubisense.net/

  • summary

RADIO FOOTPRINTS

• Anthony LaMarca et al.
  Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild.

  • Project page
    

• Adel Youssef John Krumm, Ed Miller, Gerry Cermak, Eric Horvitz
  Computing Location from Ambient FM Radio Signals

ALGORITHMS

• Krishna Kant Chintalapudi, Amit Dhariwal, Ramesh Govindan, Gaurav Sukhatme
  Ad-Hoc Localization Using Ranging and Sectoring

• Koen Langendoen , Niels Reijers
  Distributed localization in wireless sensor networks: a quantitative comparison
  

• Andrew Howard, Maja J Mataric and Gaurav S. Sukhatme
  COOPERATIVE RELATIVE LOCALIZATION FOR MOBILE ROBOT TEAMS: AN EGO CENTRIC APPROACH
  

• Chris Savarese, Jan M. Rabaey, Jan Beutel
  LOCATIONING IN DISTRIBUTED AD-HOCWIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

• Neal Patwari, et al.
  Relative Location Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Similar topic 

• Ahmed A. Ahmed, Hongchi Shi, and Yi Shang
  SHARP: A New Approach to Relative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks (get it over IEEEexplore)
  

SURVEYS

• Hightower, Boriello
  Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing

  • Another version

• Radu Stoleru, Tian He, John A. Stankovic, David Luebke
  A High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Localization System for Wireless Sensor Networks (sensys 2005)

  • good related work section