Multi-hop positioning: Relative positioning method for GPS wireless sensor network

Masayuki Saeki, Kenji Oguni

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Abstract

This paper presents a relative positioning method, called "multi-hop positioning", which is suitable for raw GPS data collected by densely deployed L1 GPS receivers. The wireless sensor network employing an affordable L1 GPS receiver has been developed by the authors for monitoring displacement of large civil structures with high spatial resolution. In general, relative positioning of GPS sensors are performed between a single reference point and sensor nodes. On the other hand, in the newly developed approach, relative positioning is performed between all pair of sensor nodes in the network. Then, the best set of relative position vectors is selected to determine the location of sensor nodes. Experiments have been conducted using 53 sensor nodes equipped with an affordable L1 GPS receiver and the collected data are analysed by using the proposed method in a post-processing manner. The results show that the success rate of relative position estimate is considerably improved compared with the conventional approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPECCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems
Pages361-368
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2012 Jun 15
Event2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, PECCS 2012 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 2012 Feb 242012 Feb 26

Publication series

NamePECCS 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems

Other

Other2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, PECCS 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period12/2/2412/2/26

Keywords

  • Displacement monitoring
  • GPS
  • Relative positioning
  • Wireless sensor network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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