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Efficient closed-form estimator for TDOA-FDOA-AOA localization

DENG Bing1;SUN Zhengbo1;YANG Le2   

  1. (1. National Key Lab. of Science and Technology on Blind Signal Processing, Chengdu 610041, China;
    2. School of Internet of Things (IoT) Engineering, Jiangnan Univ., Wuxi 214122, China)
  • Received:2017-03-26 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-06-06

Abstract:

This paper proposes a simple and efficient closed-form solution for a moving source localization using the time difference of arrival(TDOA), frequency difference of arrival(FDOA) and angle of arrival(AOA) measurements obtained at spatially distributed moving receivers. The developed method first converts nonlinear TDOA, FDOA and AOA equations into linear ones by the localization geometry relation, and then obtains the final source status estimate using the weighted least squares(WLS) technique. Theoretical analysis and simulations verify the approximate efficiency of the developed positioning technique and its improved performance over the benchmark iterative method.

Key words: passive localization, time difference of arrival(TDOA), frequency difference of arrival(FDOA), angle of arrival(AOA), Cramer-Rao lower bound(CRLB)