Local Positioning Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Local positioning systems (LPS) have attracted a large amount of research interest over the last few years. Their use in highly demanded accuracy tasks allows the optimal performance of technological systems in harsh environments in which global navigation satellite systems cannot provide a stable accurate target location. Consequently, the deployment of alternative localization systems based on ad-hoc solutions to the singularities of the application scenario is critical to achieve optimal accuracy results. LPS includes a variety of applications such as surveillance, indoor localization, autonomous navigation, underwater positioning, pedestrian localization, robotics, search and rescue operations or low-level flights. LPS employ a wide range of localization methods classified through the physical property measured to determine the target localization: time, frequency, phase, power, angle or combinations of them. This Special Issue is devoted to the progress of this incipient field and to the dissemination of research results in this research community. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

• Localization sensor networks
• Acoustic source positioning
• Asynchronous positioning systems
• Underwater localization
• Energy-based systems
• Angle-of-arrival
• Node location problem in wireless sensor networks
• Crámer–Rao bound error models
• Autonomous navigation
• Semantic visual localization
• Sensor fusion techniques
• GNSS-denied environments localization
• Taylor-based localization algorithms
• Closed-form localization algorithms
• Ultrawide band localization
• Indoor navigation

Dr. Hilde Perez
Dr. Javier Díez-González
Dr. Rubén Álvarez
Guest Editors

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