Abstract

As one of key technologies of connected vehicles (CVs) applications, wireless localization can provide accurate and reliable vehicle location for high occupancy tolling and safety critical vehicle applications, such as collision avoidance. Several artificial intelligence methods, such as back propagation neural network (BPNN) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) method, have been employed to optimize the pass-loss model and to improve the accuracy of wireless localization algorithm. However, in view of the stochasticity of initial weights and thresholds in BPNN, it is difficult to reach the global convergence. In this study, a novel double-layer architecture for wireless localization algorithm is proposed based on the optimization of initial weights and thresholds in BPNN and the refinement of search direction and step in PSO algorithm. Based on the architecture, the wireless localization algorithm integrating BPNN with mind evolutionary algorithm (MEA) and quantum-behaved PSO (QPSO) method is proposed and validated using the experiment data in field environment. The validation results show that the proposed localization algorithm has better localization accuracy by comparison with the other localization algorithms, which the average error of the proposed localization algorithm in field environment is about 19 meters. In addition, the localization accuracy shows an improving tendency with the increasing of the number of base stations connected to moving vehicle. The location error is less than 10 meters when the number of base stations connected to the moving vehicle is greater than 7. For the wireless localization in field environment, the accuracy is acceptable for CVs applications.

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