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

这个ITR计划的重点是开发能够在复杂的移动环境中远程定位移动设备的无线系统，这些移动环境是在新兴应用中遇到的，例如国土安全、执法、国防指挥和控制、多机器人协调以及交通警报，例如车辆对车辆和车辆对行人的碰撞避免。无线本地定位系统有两个主要组成部分：1)部署在移动设备(如车辆、机器人或手持设备)中的基站，用作动态基站(DBS)；2)安装在无线移动手持设备、机器人和车辆中的应答器(TRX)，作为主动目标。这种框架具有高检测概率性能、低成本收发设计和无基础设施操作等吸引人的特征。拟议活动的智力优势是发起一项多学科的努力，以无缝网络连接应对无线移动定位的关键挑战。在DBS-TRX结构的基础上，将利用各种无线通信和网络技术来建立非视距覆盖的连续、准确和移动性感知的定位范例。此外，还将建立一个高性价比的工具来在模拟的实际环境中测试和评估无线定位方案，以及评估无线定位系统对位置关键任务的影响，如无线传感器网络协作和路由。拟议活动的更广泛影响有利于位置相关的应用，这些应用对人类福利至关重要，但受到当前定位系统操作条件的限制。WLP有多个潜在的应用，将造福社会，从改进国家和国土安全的本地化技术(NHS)到经济繁荣(ASE)，为司机和行人提供更好的高速公路安全。开发的实验室将作为工科学生和研究人员的教育试验台。由于其广泛的应用范围、丰富的技术组成部分和多学科性质，拟议的WLPS研究将有助于促进研究与各级教育和外联活动的结合。

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.