Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7924942 | Optics Communications | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
Indoor positioning system using visible light communication (VLC) is widely believed to be a cost-effective solution with the popularity of LEDs. However, most existing VLC-based systems can only achieve positioning in two-dimensional (2-D) planes, and fail to solve the problems of calculating speed and positioning accuracy well in three-dimensional (3-D) space. This paper proposes a 3-D visible light positioning system based on differential evolution (DE) algorithm. The positioning model is viewed as a global optimization problem by calculating the overlapped area of LEDs circular projections in the terminal plane. DE is only used to calculate Z-coordinate of the terminal, and the dimension reduction process from 3-D to 1-D greatly reduces the calculating time. Experimental results show that the average positioning error is 0.69cm in an indoor environment of 4mÃ4mÃ6m, especially the calculating time is reduced to 24.26 ms for a single point, which indicates that the proposed localization algorithm has a good practicability especially in real-time indoor positioning. In addition, the trajectory tracking experiment performs well when the motion trajectory is generated randomly, and 90% 3-D kinematic errors are within 1.4 cm.
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Authors
Yuxiang Wu, Xiaowei Liu, Weipeng Guan, Bangdong Chen, Xin Chen, Canyu Xie,