Mobile Localization And Tracking With Los And Nlos Identification In Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Abstract This paper addresses the problem of mobile sensor localization and tracking in an obstructed environment. To solve this problem, a combination of three approaches is proposed: a nonlinear Kalman Filter to estimate the mobile position, a sub filter used jointly with the nonlinear filter to estimate the bias due to the Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) effect and a low complexity method for Line Of Sight (LOS) and NLOS identification. Based on hypothesis testing, this method discriminates between the LOS and NLOS situations using a sequence of estimated biases. Simulation results show that the proposed method provides good positioning accuracy