Journal of Xidian University ›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 63-68.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2016.04.012

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Theoretical limit of the indoor visible light-image sensor  positioning system

ZHAO Xiang1,2;LIN Jiming2,3   

  1. (1. School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. Guangxi Key Lab. of Wireless Wideband Communication and Signal Processing, Guilin Univ. of Electronic Technology, Guilin  541004, China;
    3. Guangxi Experiment Center of Information Science, Guilin Univ. of Electronic Technology, Guilin  541004, China)
  • Received:2015-05-06 Online:2016-08-20 Published:2016-10-12

Abstract:

To guide the optimization problem of the parameters in the image sensor-based visible light positioning system, theoretical limits on the location estimation of the receiver are calculated by deriving the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB). For typical indoor scenes, the observations of the image points at the receiver are affected by the Gaussian white noise, the maximum likelihood estimation(MLE) for the location of the receiver is calculated, and the CRLB for the MLE is derived. By using the real parameters of the location are achievable, with positioning error usually in the order of millimeters. The positioning error depends on the number of transmitters, the focal length of the lens, the vertical distance from roof to receiver, the pixel size and the frame rate of the image sensor.

Key words: visible light, indoor positioning systems, Cramer-Rao bounds, maximum likelihood estimation, image sensor