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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Complete Solution for Ultra-Wideband Based Real-Time Positioning.

Vlad Ratiu, Ovidiu Ratiu, Olivier Raphael Smeyers, Vasile Teodor Dadarlat, Stefan Vos, Ana Rednic

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Vlad RatiuComputer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0009-0000-3681-0011
Ovidiu RatiuControl Data Systems SRL, 400267 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0009-0004-4347-422X
Olivier Raphael SmeyersEuropean Space Agency, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Vasile Teodor DadarlatComputer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-9412-0705
Stefan VosControl Data Systems SRL, 400267 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Ana RednicComputer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Funding

European Space Agency 4000130506/20/NL/MP/mk
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Real-time positioning is a technological field with a multitude of applications, which expand across many scopes: from positioning within a large area to localization within smaller spaces; from locating people to locating equipment; from large-scale industrial or military applications to commercially available solutions. There are at least as many implementations of real-time positioning as there are applications and challenges. Within the domain of Radio Frequency (RF) systems, positioning has been approached from multiple angles. Some of the more common solutions involve using Time of Flight (ToF) and time difference of arrival (TDoA) technologies. Within TDoA-based systems, one common limitation stems from the computational power necessary to run the multi-lateration algorithms at a high enough speed to provide high-frequency refresh rates on the tag positions. The system presented in this study implements a complete hardware and software TDoA-based real-time positioning system, using wireless Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. This system demonstrates improvements in the state of the art by addressing the above limitations through the use of a hybrid Machine Learning solution combined with algorithmic fine tuning in order to reduce computational power while achieving the desired positioning accuracy. This study presents the design, implementation, verification and validation of the aforementioned system, as well as an overview of similar solutions.

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AutoGluonmachine learningpositioningreal timeRTLSTDoAToFultra-wideband

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PMID40807785
PMCPMC12349347

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