ITR: Collaborative Research: (NHS+ASE)-(dmc+int+soc): A Wireless Local Positioning System for Mobile Remote Monitoring

ITR的建议集中在开发无线系统，能够定位在复杂的移动的环境中遇到的新兴应用，如国土安全，执法，国防指挥和控制，多机器人协调，以及交通警报，如车辆到车辆和车辆到车辆的碰撞避免。所提出的无线本地定位系统（WLPS）具有两个主要组件：1）部署在移动的中的基站（例如，车辆、机器人或手持设备），用作动态基站（DBS）;以及2）安装在充当主动目标的无线移动的手持设备、机器人和车辆中的应答器（TRX）。这样的框架提供了吸引人的特征，包括高检测概率性能，低成本的收发器设计和无基础设施的操作。拟议活动的智力价值是启动一个多学科的努力，以解决关键的挑战，无线移动的定位与无缝网络连接。基于DBS-TRX结构，将利用各种无线通信和网络技术来建立一个具有非视距覆盖的连续、精确和移动感知的定位范例。此外，还将建立实验室，提供一个具有成本效益的工具，在模拟的实际环境中测试和评估无线定位方案，以及评估WLPS对位置关键任务（如无线传感器网络协作和路由）的影响。拟议活动的更广泛影响有利于位置-对人类福利至关重要但受到当前定位系统的限制性操作条件阻碍的相关应用。WLPS有多种潜在的应用，将造福社会，从改善本地化技术的国家和家庭土地安全（NHS）的经济繁荣（ASE）与更好的公路安全的司机和行人。开发的实验室将作为一个教育试验床为学生和研究人员。由于其广泛的应用范围，其丰富的技术组成部分和多学科的性质，拟议的WLPS研究将有助于促进研究与教育和各级推广活动的整合。

AbstractThis ITR proposal focuses on developing wireless systems capable of positioningmobiles remotely in complex mobile environments that are encountered in emergingapplications, such as homeland security, law enforcement, defense command and control,multi-robot coordination, and traffic alert such as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestriancollision avoidance. The proposed wireless local positioning system (WLPS)has two main components: 1) a base station deployed in a mobile (e.g., vehicles, robots orhandhelds) that serves as a Dynamic Base Station (DBS); and 2) a transponder (TRX)installed in wireless mobile handhelds, robots and vehicles that act as Active Targets.Such a framework offers attractive features including high probability-of-detectionperformance, low-cost transceiver designs and infrastructure-less operation.The intellectual merit of the proposed activity is to initiate a multi-disciplinary effort toaddress the key challenges in wireless mobile positioning with seamless networkconnectivity. Based on the DBS-TRX structure, various wireless communications andnetworking technologies will be exploited to establish a paradigm of contiguous,accurate and mobility-aware positioning with non line-of-sight coverage. In addition, alaboratory will be set up to provide a cost-effective tool to test and evaluate wirelesspositioning schemes in simulated practical environments, as well as to assess the impactsof WLPS on location-critical tasks such as wireless sensor network cooperation androuting.The broader impacts of the proposed activity benefit location-dependent applications thatare critical to human welfare but hindered by the restrictive operation conditions ofcurrent positioning systems. WLPS has multiple potential applications that would benefitsociety, ranging from improved localization technology for national and homelandsecurity (NHS) to economic prosperity (ASE) with better highway safety for both driversand pedestrians. The laboratory developed will serve as an educational test bed forengineering students and researchers. With its broad range of applications, its richtechnical components and multi-disciplinary nature, the proposed WLPS research willhelp promote the integration of research with education and outreach activities at alllevels.